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Some Digital Camera Shopping Advice

Digital cameras are everywhere now, they have totally dominated the photography world and it is hard to think what life was like before them, but they can be hard to shop for at times. 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: There are two types of zoom with digital cameras, optical zoom which is actual zoom where the front of the camera moves out and helps you zoom, and then digital zoom which is just the camera zooming in using software to make the image appear bigger. Most cameras will quote you ‘total zoom’ though which is the two numbers multiplied together, but that can mask 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 now see why you need to look at the optical zoom figure for a camera before you buy.

Not trying them out: While a camera might look great on paper or the computer screen, when you get it then it could be a totally different story. You might find that the LCD screen is impossible to see in sunlight, that the settings are hard to navigate, that it is uncomfortable to hold and hard to get the memory card in 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.

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