If you are shopping for your first digital camera you will likely find it a confusing experience. Reviews of digital cameras turn technical very quickly. The reason for this is that digital camera performance surpassed some time ago all the benchmarks that a diligent reviewer might require of a camera that was to receive his highest recommendation.
Reviewers find modern digital cameras so similar in optical image performance that they quickly turn to the fringe aspects of digital photography. They look for noisiness in the image in low light (high ISO) settings, and weigh in with their judgment of the color saturation levels, before turning to mechanical design elements like camera responsiveness (how quickly the camera performs an action) and how the camera feels in one’s hands.
Of course, none of this means a thing to you if you have never owned a digital camera. You have no reference frame within which to understand the reviewer’s concerns. As often as not you’ll find a reviewer has one major reservation about the camera model he is reviewing. It will sound like a serious and legitimate concern, whereas in fact it is an issue that 99 out of 100 photographers would never even notice in the lifetime of their camera.
Most digital camera shoppers, even those who already own at least one digital camera, pay the most attention to just one number. This is the number of megapixels that make up the light-sensitive plane that captures an image. It is easy to appreciate that a camera sensor with 10 million electronic pixels is going to provide images that have finer image detailing than a camera sensor with 6 million pixels. Megapixels are to digital camera salesmen as miles per gallon are to the auto-dealer. The more you can get for your money, they will tell you, the better.
But while it is hard to argue with the auto-dealer’s point of view, the camera salesman is just plain misinformed. If a digital camera has at least 6 megapixels it has more than enough for you to capture finely detailed images. In fact, if you choose to go with a 12 megapixel camera and you elect to capture your images with maximum resolution, then you’ll need 4 times the amount of memory to store each raw image. With high-capacity memory cards running at $40+, that’s an expense and inconvenience you can do without.
So instead of fixating on megapixels, the first time digital camera buyer really needs to figure out what camera is right for them based on their goals and expected camera usage. To help you with this, I have put together an article for you about how to Find the Right Beginner Digital Camera.
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Author: Stephen J Carter
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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