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Things You Need To Know Before You Buy A Digital Camera If you want to purchase a digital camera, you will be faced with a bewildering amount of choice. Therefore, to help find your way through this maze, it is worth working out what you can have, what you need and what cameras can do, before you go down to the mall. So, the first question is what do you want to be able to do with this camera? A point-and-click, inexpensive digital camera with a limited zoom facility is enough for most people who only want to take family and holiday snapshots. However, if you want to be able to photograph close-ups of insects or specialized photographs with special effects, you will need far more. How much can you afford? A cheap point-and-click digital camera may be bought for less than $100; a decent mid- range camera will be priced at about $300 and a good digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) will cost more than $500. However, the DSLR will do anything that you want it to do from close-ups of animals to professional portrait photographs to family snapshots. Do not forget that usually the spending does not end with the camera, you might require a PC, a printer, special inks and papers, extra memory cards and a photo manipulation program, although this program usually comes with the camera. Within the limits of the above, you have to check the resolution of the camera, which is expressed in terms of its megapixels. The more megapixels the higher the resolution, the better the quality of the image and the more you are able to edit it or zoom into it. Internal memory determines how many photos your camera will hold before it needs help from external memory in

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If you would like to purchase a digital camera, you will be faced with a bewildering amount of choice. Therefore, to help find your way through this maze, it is worth working out what you can have, what you require and what cameras can do, before you go down to the shopping precinct.

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Things You Need To Know Before You Buy A Digital Camera

If you want to purchase a digital camera, you will be faced with a bewildering amount of choice. Therefore, to help find your way through this maze, it is worth working out what you can have, what you need and what cameras can do, before you go down to the mall.

So, the first question is what do you want to be able to do with this camera? A point-and-click, inexpensive digital camera with a limited zoom facility is enough for most people who only want to take family and holiday snapshots.

However, if you want to be able to photograph close-ups of insects or specialized photographs with special effects, you will need far more.

How much can you afford? A cheap point-and-click digital camera may be bought for less than $100; a decent mid-range camera will be priced at about $300 and a good digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) will cost more than $500.

However, the DSLR will do anything that you want it to do from close-ups of animals to professional portrait photographs to family snapshots.

Do not forget that usually the spending does not end with the camera, you might require a PC, a printer, special inks and papers, extra memory cards and a photo manipulation program, although this program usually comes with the camera.

Within the limits of the above, you have to check the resolution of the camera, which is expressed in terms of its megapixels. The more megapixels the higher the resolution, the better the quality of the image and the more you are able to edit it or zoom into it.

Internal memory determines how many photos your camera will hold before it needs help from external memory in the form of memory cards. There are several types of cards and they do not fit all cameras.

They also come in diverse capacities. The cards will retain your photos until you upload them to your computer and erase them, so you could have a few.

Hold the camera. Does it fit comfortably in your hands? Does your little finger hang in front of the lens? How about the LCD display? Is it large enough for you to see without glasses? Are the colours lifelike? Do you like the camera?

How long are the batteries hoped to last? One hundred photos? How expensive are the batteries and can you use rechargable ones? Rechargable penlight batteries are the most most cost effective.

Check on the special functions and accessories of the camera. If you wear specs, you can buy a camera that has a viewfinder that has a diopter adjustment, so that you can see without your glasses on. Does it have a receiver for a tripod or even a tripod as well. Does it have a flash? A carrying strap? Wireless remote controls?

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Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is at present involved with tips for product photography. If you have an interest in photography, please go over to our web site now at Photography Studio Cameras.