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Best Selling Point and Shoot Digital Cameras
Buying a Point and Shoot Digital Camera has become fairly easy. They are all compact enough to take with you anywhere and some are even strong enough to go just about anywhere. The Olympus digital cameras, for example, have a shock proof and water proof case- so the occasional drop or more than occasional drop is nothing to worry about. Plus, you can take it with you swimming or to any event without the fear of losing your camera.
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Point and Shoot Optical Zooms
For a long time Point and Shoot digital cameras suffered when it came to optical zoom strength. Now Digital Point and Shoot camera consumers should not have to settle for anything less than a 5x optical zoom. Panasonic cameras offer a hefty 12x optical zoom on most of their Point and Shoot Digital Cameras.
Customizable Point and Shoot Digital Cameras [poll id="4" type="result"] The Digital Camera Consumer of the day hopes to find a camera that expresses who they are and can be customized to do so. Digital camera manufacturers have come out with a rainbow of color options for each camera ensuring that a sale won’t be lost because it doesn’t come in your favorite color.
Which Digital Point and Shoot Camera Brand to Choose?
Canon and Nikon have long ruled the camera business. Olympus and Panasonic are adding features that help draw consumers to their products. A host of other manufacturers try to offer products at a cost so low that they drag away some consumers although their product quality suffers. In choosing which camera to buy it really just comes down to what matters most. For Quality, choose a Canon or Nikon. For durability, choose an Olympus. For a lower cost camera with large zoom, choose a Panasonic.
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DSLR Camera Comparison
After many requests, we’ve created a DSLR Camera Comparison on what is important when choosing a new DSLR Camera. Enjoy and check out our other free photography courses found to the right.
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DSLR Camera Comparison
For a long time Point and Shoot digital cameras suffered when it came to optical zoom strength. Now Digital Point and Shoot camera consumers should not have to settle for anything less than a 5x optical zoom. Panasonic cameras offer a hefty 12x optical zoom on most of their Point and Shoot Digital Cameras.
Customizable Point and Shoot Digital Cameras What’s in the name?
All of these cameras are made by solid manufacturers that have been in the camera business for a very long time. Although Canon has reached out most successfully to the masses, Nikon and Olympus both make an entry level DSLR well worth your attention.
Lenses
We’ve listed all of the products with the lens packages they come with, as most entry level consumers will find the lens package to be a better deal than buying the camera body alone. The Olympus package offers especial value as two lenses are included in the package. The lenses are fairly slow as you’d expect from entry level cameras. By slow, I mean they don’t do an especially good job of letting light into the camera and so you have to use a slower shutter speed than you would with better lenses. The lenses for Nikon and Canon are 18-55mm. The Olympus package offers a 14-42mm and a 40-150mm lens. All these lenses are zoom lenses because they can change from one focal length to another; they are not fixed lenses. The focal length that gets you closest to the action is more “telephoto” while the focal length that is furthest away or even more zoomed out than “normal” is called “wide angle”. These lenses start off fairly normal and then let you zoom in or move to a telephoto setting that is 3X closer or 10X closer when using Olympus’ extra lens.
Sensor Cleaning Systems
Getting dust on your CCD Sensor can ruin your day and your photos until you can get the dust cleaned. The manufacturers of these fine cameras are coming up with solutions to keep dust off your photos. All of these cameras have this feature, although Canon has had some issues with it in the past. Be sure that the camera you choose has a cleaning feature that is effective.
Mega Pixels
Extra mega pixels are nice to have, especially if you you plan on printing your photos in large format. Do not, however, put too much weight on the Mega Pixels as they continue to grow each year while the typical size that you print or leave on your computer does not. The mega pixels on these cameras range from 10.2 to 12.3 MP or equivalent high quality prints of 11X14 to 16X20. If you’ve taken some of our courses you know that size isn’t all that matters in your photos. It’s really about taking the right shot at the right time and some of the bells and whistles on these cameras are designed to help you out.
Bells and Whistles
All of these cameras include some of the features included in their point and shoot counterparts. The LCD’s are large and Olympus even allows you to use the LCD as a viewfinder which results in only a slight delay in performance (speed). Nikon has developed a flash that fires based on information collected by various sensors. It’s much more sophisticated than past cameras and lessens the problems that flash photography can cause. Image Stabilization or Vibration Reduction are also two features that will allow your photos to be clearer by reducing camera shake. This technology in the lens is newer, so if you get an after market lens be sure that it also has this technology.
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Megapixels
Megapixels are an important facet of photography and important to getting quality photographs, but they aren’t the determining factor to good photography. Take that into considerations when buying a camera.
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Everything is measured in various increments. One thousand milimeters is the equivalent to one meter. With that same concept one million pixels is the equivalent to one megapixel. Since you are reading this article you are also staring at pixels and megapixels on your screen, in fact this screen has 1296000 pixels. That's 1.296 Megapixels
When thinking of a megapixel, think of how all the threads come together to make a tapestry or the yarn that makes scarves. It is the same with a megapixel, each pixel alone is only one color, but combine it in a sequences with many other pixels and you will we see more than one color and see a picture instead. Pixels are so small though that you don’t really look at one individual pixel with you’re naked eye, that is why it takes so many pixels together to see them. That “so-called” combination of pixels are what make up megapixels.
Now, back when digital cameras first started coming out the highest pixel count was between 1-2 megapixels. Back then, it was important to be aware of how many megapixels you were using and what you were going to get. If the camera doesn’t have enough megapixels, it won’t have the capabilities to give you a quality, non-pixelated picture. There wouldn’t be enough pixels recorded to make a large image that is still sharp and clear. Luckily in today’s photography world, it is almost impossible to get a camera under 5 or 6 megapixels unless it is a used camera.
During this whole discussion nothing has been said for or against how many megapixels you should have to get quality photography. That is because while its important to make sure you have enough for the size of picture you want, more megapixels doesn’t guarantee a better picture. Its seems to make more sense that more megapixels ensures the sharper, clearer photo. Sadly, this is a misconception that no one bothers to correct. There is so much more to creating those images, including lighting, knowledge of the camera’s buttons and controls, tripods, composition, and more.
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