Buying a new digital camera

Buying a new digital camera can be a challenging task especially when you don’t have in mind what do you exactly need and what are you going to look for once go shopping a cam. Even experienced camera person can get dazzled when they find themselves surrounded by loads of cameras with numbers of features. A buying guide can help you a lot in these kinds of situations. It can tell you what you features you need for what kind of purposes and what is best for you both in features and prices. You need to consider and go over few questions before walking into a camera store. Questions like DSLR or point-and-shoot? How many megapixels do I need? Digital zoom or optical zoom? What’s the difference between digital and optical zoom? What’s the purpose of buying a camera and how much are you going to use it? And at last how much will you spent for a digital camera?

If you are a amateur photographer and you want a cam just to shoot some photos when you are out somewhere and just on occasional moments like a friend’s birthday than you can go for a normal camera and with few features. But you are going to take your photography to a whole new level and if you are already a professional than you will probably need something special. Besides all the newest features that today’s different companies offer there are few basic things you need to take care of, as I’ve already mentioned above.

DSLR are those cameras used by the professionals. Needless to say they are bulky hi tech and of course expensive. They provide high quality pictures; shoot very fast and they also have amazing range of shooting distance. They have powerful lenses to shoot from few inches to hundreds of yards; of course it depends on your shooting skills. On the other hand point and shoot cameras are normal cameras that people use for normal purposes, from a friend’s birthday party to picnic and few snaps when you drive across a country. They are cheap but cannot deliver the high range performance as DSLR does. While DSLR can cost you over $500 a point and shoot cam is very economical and cost you around $100.

Talking about pixels its always “the more, the better”. Even cheapest digital cameras have enough pixels for normal photography and they do produce nice sets of pictures. We have a general misconception that more pixilated you have the better picture you get, which is just a misconception as I’ve already told you.

Optical zoom or digital zoom is an important factor while buying a camera. Though it doesn’t matter much buying a camera with more optical zoom than digital is thoughtful decision. Optical zoom can give you a better picture. Using digital is rarely used by good photographer because it really hinders the quality of a picture.

With all this info and a proper buying guide hope you can bring home a nice digital camera.