You have now decided to go a head and purchase a digital camera, but like
many other electronic devices available to consumers now days the digital
camera is changing all the time. You may find that for the same amount of
money you would have spent a few months ago on a camera you will now get
one with more and more features such as megapixels, storage space and zoom
facilities. This article will hopefully provide you with a few hints and
tips on what you should be looking for and how to choose the best camera
for you.
There are a number things that you will need to consider when making this
all important purchase. Firstly you need to work out how much you are
willing to spend, some can cost from as little as ten dollars to ones that
will cost a thousand dollars or more. You will also need to decide what
you will be using the camera for as well as how much you are going to
spend. The best way of solving this is by writing down a few simple
questions such as will I be using it to take family pictures? Will it be
used to take photographs of the landscape? Will I be traveling a lot? Will
I need it for taking lots of flash photography? By having these questions
in mind it will make your choice of camera easier.
Now that you have decided on how much you want to spend and what it will
be used for you can look at a range of potential cameras that fit in to
your criteria and build up a list of the ones you are interested in and
include details such as price and the features that each one has to offer.
Below I provide a list of features with a short explanation that should be
included when you are making up a list of features for the cameras that
you are interested in.
Firstly there are Megapixels. Many cameras now come with an ever
increasing number of megapixels and many people ask if the more megapixels
a camera has is better. Having more megapixels all really depends on
whether your are going to print photographs (especially enlargements) or
you want to zoom in and crop the fine detail out of large photographs. Or
is it just that you want to look at them on your computer and may be
occasionally print of a few small prints. I would suggest that you look at
using a 2 megapixel camera for the latter as you will find that most
computer screens have a resolution of 1024x768 which even when viewing a
photograph on a full screen which equates to less than 1 megapixel. Even a
photograph (4x6) printed off will have a DPI higher than 300 which will be
more than enough to produce a high quality print.
However, if you plan to print enlargements of your photographs then you
need to look at the different print sizes and what megapixels are required
to produce high quality prints. The table provided below shows you the
photograph size and the megapixel required.
Photo Size - Megapixel
4x6 - 2
5x7 - 3
8x10 - 7
11x14 - 14
16x20 - 28
20x30 - 54
However, if money is no object where the purchase of your camera is
concerned then the more megapixels you have may out weigh other features
that could be available to you. For example should you spend money on the
extra megapixels or a better lense, or an external flash unit? Really, it
all depends on how you camera will be used. So remember to decide what
your camera will be used for and make the decision on what is more
important to you based on this.
Next is the Zoom feature. In some cases it is very handy to have the use
of a good quality zoom on your camera, especially say when you want to
take a good quality portrait photo where the object/person.s face fills
the complete photo frame, whilst when taking a photo of a group of people
you want to make sure that everybody is in it.
You will find that there are two types of zoon now available, optical and
digital. The optical zoom works by physically moving the cameras lense and
changing the focal length of the picture. By changing the focal length you
are able to make objects or subjects appear bigger than they are and that
will fit the full photo frame. Whilst a digital zoom works by using built
in software in the camera to clearly define a certain section of the photo
that you are interested in taking. Then once this has been chosen the
software inside will remove the rest of the photo surrounding the area and
will then enlarge the chosen section and this will fit into a complete
photo frame. Unfortunately the one downside of using a digital zoom is
that the quality of the enlarged photo is less than that of the original
photo taken.
So in conclusion if you are serious about taking photographs and not just
to use it for taking those all important holiday snaps I would suggest you
opt for the optical zoom and from a practical point of view a digital zoom
should not be considered as a zoom lense at all.
However you need to be careful when looking at a camera you are thinking
of buying as not always do the manufacturers stipulate whether the zoom
figure specified is actually optical or digital. It can become quite
confusing for those people who do not understand the difference between
these two. So for example if a camera says it supports a 5X optical zoom
and 10X digital zoom then is being advertised as a .10X zoom camera. you
can see how the confusion can arise. A 10X digital zoom can be done to any
camera just by using some simple PC software.
Once you have compared different cameras zooms then always compare their
optical zoom capabilities as well. Really you can totally ignore the
digital zoom figures that you will be provided with.
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