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A Beginners Guide To Choosing A Digital Camera.
by: Richard Merson
Digital photography is no longer a ‘new thing’. Digital photography has flourished of late and for good reason. Gone are the days when taking your holiday snaps required buying a film, taking pictures in the hope that at least half would develop and then tripping down top the processor after your holiday or sightseeing. Now there is a multitude of options from the expensive to inexpensive that allow you to take your pictures, view the results and decide which pictures to save for future printing on your home PC or delete as unsatisfactory. All the former big boys in the camera market, such as Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus and Fuji now have digital cameras to suit every pocket and every use. There are even numerous smaller companies building digital cameras to suit this ever growing market. For a first time buyer the choice can be so bewildering, so how do you choose which camera will suit you?
The basics of choosing a digital camera are to know your budget, know what type of pictures you want to take and how you intend to use the pictures.
For the beginner setting a budget on your camera purchase will soon cut down the choice to a manageable level. Ask yourself, are you just gong to take the odd holiday snap if a one off picture opportunity comes up or are you the type who likes to fully document each holiday you have, maybe you’re a habitual holiday snapper from pre digital times? If you’re the type who only takes a picture on holiday if you see something truly inspiring or just to document that you did attend then go for the lower price end. You should be able to pick up something useable for $50. If you document your holidays and most of the sights you see regularly and have maybe owned a camera for years then splash out toward the higher end of the basic models, think in terms of a $200 investment.
Once you have established your budget consider the type of pictures you’ll be taking. Are you likely to be taking pictures everywhere you go? Consider the weight and size of the camera you need. Are you likely to be taking pictures of friends and relatives on location or do you have an eye for the picturesque panoramas? Maybe consider a zoom lense, for panoramas go optical for family shots a digital zoom with flash may suffice. Are you a habitual snapper when the cameras in your hand or an opportunist clicker? Consider the size of memory you’ll require. The opportunist may not require huge lumps of memory but a habitual snapper may be different. Think about battery life. If your going to take a few shots a day you’ll need a better battery life than if you take the odd snap.
Once you have chosen the best combination of size, weight, memory, battery life and zoom for your uses, consider how you will use your pictures. If you need to print large pictures off your computer beware the more megapixels (resolution) you have the better. It is a sure thing that the higher the megapixels the more expensive the camera, so leave this choice till last. For a beginner spending your budget on a camera based on megapixels initially will lead to a poor choice with a camera that does have the other characteristics to suit your purposes. If you generally print off the more traditional photo sizes for an album do not be to concerned with the number of megapixels, most base model digital cameras will give you an adequate print.
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About The Author
Richard Merson writes for www.online-digital-photo.net.
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Plustek Announces First U.S. Photo Scanner (PC Magazine)
Posted on 29 Jul 2010 at 4:27pm PC Magazine - Plustek is introducing the SmartPhoto P60, a compact and portable scanner which can convert old photographs into digital files with the touch of a button. It is the first photo scanner that the company is releasing to the U.S. market.
Posted on 28 Jul 2010 at 6:26pm
AP - Robust inkjet printer sales and fewer charges narrowed Eastman Kodak Co.'s loss to $168 million in the second quarter, but its slumping film business cast a shadow over the photography pioneer's prolonged digital transformation.
Is This HTC's First Windows Phone 7 Device? (PC World)
Posted on 26 Jul 2010 at 12:40pm PC World - Photos of a near-final version of an alleged HTC Windows Phone 7 device have leaked online. The photos show a handset with a 3.7-inch Super LCD screen, with a purported 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 8-megapixel camera, and three touch-sensitive buttons at the bottom of the device. HTC is rumored to be in talks with Verizon and possibly Sprint about the unnamed device, according to Engadget.
Panasonic Debuts New Rugged, 'Bright-Lens' Cameras (PC Magazine)
Posted on 21 Jul 2010 at 2:00am PC Magazine - On Wednesday, Panasonic announced five new digital cameras. They're basically divided into three categories; super-zooms, rugged models and "bright lens" versions.
New Scanner Helps Consumers Digitize Photos (PC Magazine)
Posted on 12 Jul 2010 at 8:00am PC Magazine - The Pandigital Personal Photo Scanner/Converter provides one-touch scanning of photos onto an included SD card, other common memory card formats (MS, MS Pro, MMS, XD), or to a Mac or PC computer via its mini-USB port.
US Panel to Investigate Patent Complaint Against Smartphones (PC World)
Posted on 8 Jul 2010 at 7:00pm PC World - The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation into patent complaints filed by FlashPoint Technology, which alleges that four smartphone makers have violated three patents related to the digital camera functions in the devices.
Silicon Motion raises 2Q revenue expectations (AP)
Posted on 8 Jul 2010 at 4:28pm AP - Taiwanese chip designer Silicon Motion Technology Corp. on Thursday raised its second-quarter revenue forecast, citing better-than-expected sales of mobile storage products such as flash memory cards and USB flash drives for digital cameras and multimedia players.
Motorola Charm has BlackBerry look, Android feel (Ben Patterson)
Posted on 7 Jul 2010 at 10:06pm Ben Patterson - It may not boast the hottest features of the latest Android superphones — no 8-megapixel cameras, HD recording or video chat, for example — but with its new, BlackBerry-style QWERTY keypad, the Motorola Charm still represents something of a first.
Stellar Battery Life May Be Droid X's Best Feature (PC World)
Posted on 5 Jul 2010 at 10:10pm PC World - Never mind the jumbo 4.3-inch display, high-res 8-megapixel camera, or speedy 1GHz processor, the finest feature of Motorola's new Droid X smartphone may be its ability to hold a charge.
Sprint to get its second 4G Android phone (Ben Patterson)
Posted on 28 Jun 2010 at 7:54pm Ben Patterson - The HTC Evo 4G won't be the only WiMax-enabled arrow in Sprint's smartphone quiver for much longer. Get ready for the Samsung Epic, an Android-powered QWERTY slider with a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing lens for video chat, and a speedy 1GHz processor. Still no word on when the Epic will arrive, or how much it will cost.
iPhone 4: Early thoughts and hands-on impressions (Ben Patterson)
Posted on 24 Jun 2010 at 8:54pm Ben Patterson - It's fast, solid, thin but a bit hefty. And though the Retina display is as eye-popping as they say, the new 5-megapixel, flash-equipped camera still leaves plenty of room for improvement. Read on for these and other hands-on impressions of the iPhone 4.
Hands-on camera review: Fujifilm's FinePix HS10 (Christopher Null)
Posted on 11 Jun 2010 at 6:46pm Christopher Null - Consumers have historically had two choices when it comes to digital cameras: Get a cheap pocket camera that takes iffy pics, or pony up the big bucks for a DSLR that takes nearly perfect ones.
Nokia swings for fences with N8 smartphone, revamped Symbian OS (Ben Pat...
Posted on 27 Apr 2010 at 5:06pm Ben Patterson - So, what do Nokia and RIM have in common? The two smartphone titans are both saddled with operating systems that look painfully behind the times compared with competitors such as the iPhone and the new Android-powered HTC Incredible, and both are looking to turn their respective tides this year: RIM with its just-unveiled BlackBerry 6.0 operating system, and Nokia with its new N8 handset, complete with a 12-megapixel camera and the redesigned Symbian^3 OS.
Android-powered HTC Incredible takes flight for Verizon Wireless (Ben Pa...
Posted on 15 Apr 2010 at 6:47pm Ben Patterson - The ambitiously named Incredible doesn't quite scale the heights of HTC's recently announced Evo 4G (or at least on paper it doesn't), but hey — it still looks impressive in its own right. (Maybe "HTC Impressive" would have been a better name?)
Study: Panasonic digital cameras most reliable, Casio the least (Christo...
Posted on 31 Mar 2010 at 8:50pm Christopher Null - SquareTrade is a company that sells extended, add-on warranties for your digital gadgetry. But when consumers make claims on those warranties, SquareTrade keeps track of the data and releases insightful information about how reliable our electronic devices are.
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