How To Choose The Right Digital Camera For You
Many times I've been asked what the best digital camera to
get is. The response is, as you've probably heard quite a few times, "it
depends on what you want to do." And what you want to do creates a need.
That's all very well but how do you know exactly what you need?
By: Amy Renfrey
Many times I've been asked what the best digital camera to
get is. The response is, as you've probably heard quite a few times, "it
depends on what you want to do." And what you want to do creates a need.
That's all very well but how do you know exactly what you need?
Once you work out what types of digital photos you want to
improve then choosing a camera will seem difficult and confusing. In the end
you will have a hard time and probably end up not choosing a digital camera at
all and this is not good because your digital photos will remain the same. You
can certainly have a great experience in digital photography, but if you have
the right camera you'll find that this experience is vastly improved.
For starters, think about the digital photographs you have
taken in the past and think about your frustration with them. Are they to dark?
Is the lag time too long? Is it out of focus when you try to get long distance
digital photos? Or alternatively are have you tried to get digital photos that
seem out of focus up close, or you can't get close enough in to your subjects?
For example I have a subscriber who just loves to take
digital photographs of flowers. She's a lady in her 60's and is an avid Gardner and asked me to
help her to capture the brilliant colour and detail of her carefully grown
flowers. I suggested that with the camera she had been using to date, her
flowers would have two problems:
Colour saturation (which creates lack of detail) and the
camera would not provide her with the ability to get focused shots up close,
even when the "flower" setting was on, on her digital camera. She
confirmed this was indeed the problem she was having. As a help, I gave her
some pointers to what may help her digital photography experience by looking at
the problems in the current digital camera, then finding an active solution.
The problem was that a lot of point and shoot digital
cameras may be fantastic and feel like a bargain at $200 they just don't have
the digital sensor capabilities to capture to fine detail when there is a bulk
amount of colour in the scene. Let's take for example a digital photograph of a
yellow rose. The digital camera would not be able to distinguish the detail in
the petals up close because it gets lost in "all the yellow". Because
the digital camera's sensor built for the bottom end range it's not able to
capture this fine detail.
My subscriber was also having trouble with her detail in
focus up close. Even though she was selecting the "flower" setting,
it still was not as clear up close as it could be. And due to the colour
saturation in her digital photos she was having difficulty getting the clear
digital images that she imagined getting in her mind. I suggested that she may
want to look at a digital camera with a capability to add macro lenses. I
explained that the sensor would be able to pick up more detail in the colour of
the flowers if she had better lenes for the macro photography that she wanted
to do. A good macro lens would give her the detail up close, and she could get
in even closer than before without losing focus or detail.
In the end my lady subscriber ended up choosing a Sony
digital camera with interchangeable lenses and with a better sensor. She was
extremely impressed with the new digital image quality her photographs were
getting. She was able to photograph the petals up very close and even capture
the tiny veins in the petals of the flowers.
I recommend you do the same. Think about the frustrations
you've had in the past as then find a camera to suit. Try to look first at the
digital cameras that have the features and facilities you are after, and then
look at the whole range. Not the other way around. Looking at every single
digital camera first may confuse you; its better to narrow your search down to
the features first.
Happy shooting!
Amy Renfrey http://www.digitalphotographysuccess.com/
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