Want to buy a digital camera?

Although features may differ depending on the price and quality of the camera, you should make sure you consider the following:

Resolution of the image: The greater the number of megapixels your camera has, the greater will be the detail in your photos putting them in the high resolution category.

Optical Zoom: The higher the optical zoom of the camera, the nearer you get to the action.

Memory sticks/Flash cards: The greater capacity in MB (megabytes) your memory stick has, the greater number of photos you can store on your camera.

Every so often you find that the big names in digital cameras like Sony, Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Kodak, Nikon and Panasonic introduce new models in the market which have some recent improvement or additional feature that you must have. With so many makes, models, megapixel resolution and other features to select from, how do you ensure that you opt for the ideal digital camera?

For printing the pictures you click, if you are going to print the pictures yourself, ensure that you have a good printer that will give you good quality photos; also making sure you have a stock of good photographic paper with you. Depending on what result you might want, you might decide to upload your pictures to a photofinisher’s website online; some of these are Picasa, Snapfish, Kodak Easyshare Gallery and Shutterfly. Other sites which allow you to upload your pictures and share them with the general public or only with your friends and/or family, as you may choose to, include Ibibo, Bigadda, Facebook and Flickr.

What is a Megapixel?
Pixels are small dots that form a digital picture. One megapixel is equivalent to a million pixels. Digital cameras are available in a range of megapixels and theoretically, the more megapixels your camera comes with, the clearer and better your picture will be. However, if you look at it from a practical point of view, it depends on where and how you will be using these pictures. If you are just clicking pictures to place on the web, then low-resolution ones will do and they are normally 300 to 500 pixels in width. Megapixels come into the picture when you are looking to print pictures larger than the usual 4”x6”. Then you must consider a camera with more megapixels. Other reasons are it allows you to crop the picture down and lets your pictures get sharper.

Why use digital cameras

As the Net increasingly becomes a regular part of our life and we find ourselves spending more and more time on the Net, it may be communicating with friends and family far away or shopping or selling on the Net in places like e-bay, the digital camera plays a very important role – whether you are sharing your photos with friends and family or you are a professional photographer, artist, web designer, civil contractor, real estate agent, or a seller on e-bay. The old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” holds good and that is where the digital camera comes in. And a good picture will make all the difference! If the picture gives you a clear view of what the seller is selling it becomes easier for the buyer to make up his mind about whether he wants to buy the item at all.

A digital camera is very much like the conventional film camera but the main difference is that it saves the photos as digital data on a memory card instead of images on film. The memory card is a storage device which you can remove from your digital camera and replace with a second one if you are on a long holiday. To retrieve the images stored on the memory card of your digital camera, you can connect the digital camera to the computer or if you have a card reader in your computer, you can put the memory card into it. Then you can view and edit the pictures (change the contrast, brightness, resize them using software like Photoshop) on your monitor screen and print them if you have a printer or send them to a photo studio or lab. You can also download the photos to your computer, e-mail them to your family and friends, upload them to your website, write them to CD, etc. The options are endless… But when you compare digital pictures to film photographs, the latter have resolution that you might say is infinite whereas digital photos are restricted by how much memory you have in your camera, the resolution of the mechanism for digitizing in the camera and lastly, the resolution of the camera used to print the pictures.

Digital cameras provide you with astonishing inventive control.

• You click a photo, view it, if not satisfied, discard it immediately and click again and again till you are satisfied. You can utilize the LCD screen to make check that you are getting the desirable image. No need of wasting money on film, developing the film and then printing the photos and then when you find that they aren’t suitable, start all over again incurring more expense.
• Once downloaded to your computer you can edit them yourself using suitable software like Photoshop – change the color, contrast, crop them and put in other special effects. Next you can do a whole lot of things like printing, emailing, writing to CD, etc. You can put them up on a website or blog or some other sites which let you share your photos with the general public or only family and friends as you choose. It also works as a backup in case your hard disk crashes and you lose all your pictures. Or you could back them up on CDs or DVDs.
• You do not have to wait for your entire film to be finished, then processed and printed to finally see your pictures. Nor do you have to pay all the charges for these processes.
• You can connect your digital camera to your TV and view a slide show.
• Also the majority of digital cameras today allow you to make short videos complete with sound.

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