Digital Camera

If you don’t own a digital camera buy a digital camera now and throw the old camera for film out – or – better, try to sell it for the little money you might be able to get for it in time.

Digital cameras are becoming completely dominating the scene of photography - for good reasons. A digital camera is much cheaper to run because you don’t have expenses for buying film and development. You just have to pay for prints, whatever you are printing with your own photo printer or go to a photo shop or photo mail service.

Buy a good digital camera but not a digital camera that are too complicated or too high priced because the development of new digital cameras goes very fast. For every year you will get a better digital camera for less money.

I can hear you ask: Why then buy the camera now? Why not wait for another year for a better digital camera with more features and better performance?

My answer is, and I am sure other professionals will join me when I answer, that the medium priced digital cameras are already of a quality and standard that are more than enough for the serious general photographer. The medium priced digital cameras are offering a picture quality that matches the professional digital cameras for a few years ago for a tenth of the price or less.

The file size is determined partly by the number of pixels produced by the photo sensitive chip in the digital camera. 5 so-called Mega pixels will do well for most family use. Many good digital cameras of even medium price offer much more than that. You can find reviews of some of the best digital cameras at dpreview.com

One of the most versatile aspects of the digital camera is the ability to show the new picture just after it is taken. In that way you are always in command of what you get, as it costs you nothing to take a new picture with a digital camera. Yes, in fact you can take 100 digital pictures with your new camera and delete the 99 picture files and just keep one - hopefully a super good digital picture.

The digital camera uses a memory card to keep the digital files. There are different sizes and types. The so-called compact flash card (CF card) is very common. A CF card of 1 GB (gigabyte) will hold many hundreds of digital pictures, depending on the file size you are using. You can choose between having one very big flash card or a few of lesser size.

Personally I like to have a number of flash cards (I have to use CF cards for my Canon digital cameras) as I feel I am distributing the risk if something goes wrong with a card.

Reality is that flash cards are much more robust than old-fashioned fill rolls. But the flash cards are also tiny and I am afraid of dropping the card.

Jump to your camera dealer in the street or find an online-camera dealer and order a nice digital camera for your photographic enjoyment the next years.

Soren Breiting is a stock photographer, see Soren's high quality stock photos taken with Canon digital cameras at A-Z Fotos and learn about digital cameras at DigitalPhotographyAndPictures.com

Written by: Soren Breiting

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