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Digital cameras are great, they have totally taken over the world of photography and it is hard to imagine life without them now, but shopping for them can be a nightmare. These cameras are crammed with so much technology now that you need to wade through lists of acronyms and hyped up blurb trying to figure out what it all means before you can make a choice. Below are some tips to help you pick your perfect camera:
Don’t worry about megapixels: Megapixels are over-hyped, people don’t realize that all that is changing when you go over about 8 megapixels is the size of the finished photo (which will be huge) and therefore the amount you can zoom in if you are editing it etc. Unless you are doing lots of photo editing and need to zoom in a lot, or you do really need poster-sized prints, then don’t use megapixels as the deciding factor between cameras.
Looking at total zoom: With digital cameras then you have two types of zoom, digital zoom is just where software in the camera zooms in on the scene, optical zoom is where the lens moves out from the camera to actually zoom in more. Manufacturers like to quote you ‘total zoom’ figures in their specifications, which is the two types multiplied together, but that can be made to hide a camera with poor optical zoom. For example, if you had a camera with a low optical zoom like 2x, then you could give it a large digital zoom like 10x and still get 20x total zoom, the same as a camera with 5x optical and 4x digital zoom. So you can see why it is important to look at the value for the optical zoom when you are considering a camera.
Not trying them out: Don’t forget that while the spec for a camera may look great on paper, then when you get hold of it you may hate it, the menu might be tough to navigate, the LCD screen may be hard to see, it might be too small or have far too many settings etc. These are the kind of things you can only find out if you actually try one out in person. To do that pop into an electrical store and ask to try a display model out, usually they will be more than happy to oblige, and then you can find out what it is really like.
Those 3 tips will help you to avoid the common pitfalls when camera shopping, so you can find a camera which you are comfortable with and one that will give you fantastic pictures for years to come!
If you want a funky model then consider getting a pink camera to liven things up, just remember the tips above so you pick the best one.
