Do you want a digital camera?
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If you have made the right choice and if you are satisfied with your purchase basically depends on how you understand why you need this camera. What do you normally say in this case? I would like to make photos of my family members, countryside... And as a rule that's all. However you can manage to do THIS with any camera. Another thing is HOW the camera does this. ?
1) Ultra compact and super compact cameras Suppose, you know nothing at all about shooting and you need a camera only to take pictures of birthdays, office and christening parties etc.. You also want to print images at times in the 10x15 format and preview images on a TV screen or a monitor. Apart from this, the only setting you are planning to use is the auto mode and you are not going to grasp why your pictures are sometimes fuzzy and dark. In this case I would recommend you to opt for an ultra compact camera. Usually, there's no possibility to change shooting settings. The manufacturers, however, offer you lots of pre-installed software for most of modes such as portrait and landscape shooting, sport shots, shooting at night and in the evening. The mode of the face detection has just become well-known because it's fully automatic and very helpful. Today this mode can save those pictures that might have been spoiled. Taking into consideration that such cameras can be carried wherever you go, they are usually not larger than a female hand. Apart from this, using lithium-ion batteries allows companies to make the devices even slimmer. So, some devices are almost the same size as a mobile phone. Casio and Sony make best ultra compact cameras (their costs are not best, though). Different brands and models of such ultra compact cameras look differently and have different software but similar technical specifications. Of course, if we compare cameras produced at a different time, we will understand that their technical features have improved and so has the quality of the shots. Devices produced at the same time (same year) however have almost no difference. The competition doesn't let companies have no options which can be found in the devices made by their competitors. You will see no significant changes marked in the advertisement. That's why while buying a camera, take the one which you find superb, is very productive and has good quality equipment and price.
2) Classical compact camera (improved) Let us suppose you want to have a camera for the same purposes as in the first case. You feel however that you might wish to control the shooting settings because you know that at times the automatic modes fail. And besides, you want your camera be as small as possible. The last criterion underlines what you should opt for, that is for compact digital cameras. Basically, they are similar to the cameras described in the first section. Still they have some distinctive specifications:
* Apart from the automatic mode and various modes dealing with different types of shooting you will more likely find manual modes such as the fully manual mode, the aperture priority and the shutter priority (what these expressions mean you can find out in books and Internet articles on photography). * Instead of lithium-ion batteries companies use traditional AA batteries * Such cameras are slightly bigger than ultra compact ones. This, however, is not a disadvantage. It's more like an advantage because such cameras are easy-to-handle and the settings are easily controlled. * Such cameras are usually provided with a viewfinder. * There are cameras with rotating displays. * Usually they cost less.
Why do I admit that the quality of the photos made with compact cameras is better than that of those made with ultra compact ones? It regularly depends on the lens. While in compact cameras the choice between high quality optics and a compact size is made in favor of the size (for example, there are no additional lenses for removing distortion), the size of these cameras is limited by nothing. Moreover, a very small size of the lens doesn't let one remove dirty spots. And the most part of the lens can be exposed to dirt, which affects the optical features of the device.
3) Ultra zoom cameras... If you've made up your mind to buy a camera, which will allow you to take high quality pictures; if you would love to study the art of photography; if you would love to try out the framing, then you should buy this kind of devices. There are a great amount of brands, I'm not going to bore you with this long list but such cameras are recognizable by their larger size (they are bigger than compact cameras) and by bigger lenses which can't be kept in the body of the camera.
As a general rule, the matrix in these cameras is bigger than that in ultra compact devices. And the matrix is often larger than that of compact cameras. The matrix and the higher quality lens lead in the end to the higher quality of the pictures.
Technical specifications of such cameras are: * Manual modes of shooting * Storing photos in JPEG and RAW (for storing photos without worsening of the quality) formats. * The option to use the external flash * The wide range of zooming features (the focal length). This value can equal 20. * The viewfinder * It is possible to use a filter or any sort of optical equipment (usually) * The internal flash is better than that of usual compact cameras. * An easy-to-handle camera allows one to get rid of the "shaky hands" during the shooting process. These cameras generally have a rotating display.
4. DSLR cameras One needs a camera to take high quality pictures. That's why everything in the device is aimed at it. The quality of the photos depends on the matrix. In DSLR cameras for beginners and intermediate users the matrix is much bigger than that in the devices described earlier. In experts the matrix is even bigger and the frame is the same size as that of standard film that is 35 mm. Also, medium format cameras have even bigger matrixes. Still, because of their price only a few people could afford to buy them. They, however, will never read this article:). Because of the bigger matrix DSLR cameras have a high value of ISO (sometimes this value reaches 100000) and better control the depth of the field as well. The second essentialsignificant thing is interchangeable optical equipment. Previously, I have already told that a low-end compact lens with good optical specifications can't have a wide range of the foal length. If you spend some additional money on interchangeable optics, you will solve this problem (one should spend everything to get high quality :)). To get high quality one should always pay a lot. If you made up your mind to buy a DSLR camera with the kit-lens, you will soon find out that the lens is not very good (of course there might be exceptions and the kit-lens might have higher quality). And regarding the quality of kit-lenses in DSLR cameras, one can claim that lenses in ultra zoom cameras can have higher quality. And then you will have to splash out on a better lens. It's ok if you are taking pictures of the same genre. Then you can manage with only one lens. But if you are interested in various genres, be ready to splash out on some lenses. Undoubtedly, you can save on buying lenses made by other companies (Tamron, Sigma,Tokina) or used lenses or use old lenses made in the Soviet Union with the connector. Having experimented with all this, however, you will soon accept that you will not win. But if you have bought a good lens, then if you use it rightly, the pictures will be awesome.
1) Ultra compact and super compact cameras Suppose, you know nothing at all about shooting and you need a camera only to take pictures of birthdays, office and christening parties etc.. You also want to print images at times in the 10x15 format and preview images on a TV screen or a monitor. Apart from this, the only setting you are planning to use is the auto mode and you are not going to grasp why your pictures are sometimes fuzzy and dark. In this case I would recommend you to opt for an ultra compact camera. Usually, there's no possibility to change shooting settings. The manufacturers, however, offer you lots of pre-installed software for most of modes such as portrait and landscape shooting, sport shots, shooting at night and in the evening. The mode of the face detection has just become well-known because it's fully automatic and very helpful. Today this mode can save those pictures that might have been spoiled. Taking into consideration that such cameras can be carried wherever you go, they are usually not larger than a female hand. Apart from this, using lithium-ion batteries allows companies to make the devices even slimmer. So, some devices are almost the same size as a mobile phone. Casio and Sony make best ultra compact cameras (their costs are not best, though). Different brands and models of such ultra compact cameras look differently and have different software but similar technical specifications. Of course, if we compare cameras produced at a different time, we will understand that their technical features have improved and so has the quality of the shots. Devices produced at the same time (same year) however have almost no difference. The competition doesn't let companies have no options which can be found in the devices made by their competitors. You will see no significant changes marked in the advertisement. That's why while buying a camera, take the one which you find superb, is very productive and has good quality equipment and price.
2) Classical compact camera (improved) Let us suppose you want to have a camera for the same purposes as in the first case. You feel however that you might wish to control the shooting settings because you know that at times the automatic modes fail. And besides, you want your camera be as small as possible. The last criterion underlines what you should opt for, that is for compact digital cameras. Basically, they are similar to the cameras described in the first section. Still they have some distinctive specifications:
* Apart from the automatic mode and various modes dealing with different types of shooting you will more likely find manual modes such as the fully manual mode, the aperture priority and the shutter priority (what these expressions mean you can find out in books and Internet articles on photography). * Instead of lithium-ion batteries companies use traditional AA batteries * Such cameras are slightly bigger than ultra compact ones. This, however, is not a disadvantage. It's more like an advantage because such cameras are easy-to-handle and the settings are easily controlled. * Such cameras are usually provided with a viewfinder. * There are cameras with rotating displays. * Usually they cost less.
Why do I admit that the quality of the photos made with compact cameras is better than that of those made with ultra compact ones? It regularly depends on the lens. While in compact cameras the choice between high quality optics and a compact size is made in favor of the size (for example, there are no additional lenses for removing distortion), the size of these cameras is limited by nothing. Moreover, a very small size of the lens doesn't let one remove dirty spots. And the most part of the lens can be exposed to dirt, which affects the optical features of the device.
3) Ultra zoom cameras... If you've made up your mind to buy a camera, which will allow you to take high quality pictures; if you would love to study the art of photography; if you would love to try out the framing, then you should buy this kind of devices. There are a great amount of brands, I'm not going to bore you with this long list but such cameras are recognizable by their larger size (they are bigger than compact cameras) and by bigger lenses which can't be kept in the body of the camera.
As a general rule, the matrix in these cameras is bigger than that in ultra compact devices. And the matrix is often larger than that of compact cameras. The matrix and the higher quality lens lead in the end to the higher quality of the pictures.
Technical specifications of such cameras are: * Manual modes of shooting * Storing photos in JPEG and RAW (for storing photos without worsening of the quality) formats. * The option to use the external flash * The wide range of zooming features (the focal length). This value can equal 20. * The viewfinder * It is possible to use a filter or any sort of optical equipment (usually) * The internal flash is better than that of usual compact cameras. * An easy-to-handle camera allows one to get rid of the "shaky hands" during the shooting process. These cameras generally have a rotating display.
4. DSLR cameras One needs a camera to take high quality pictures. That's why everything in the device is aimed at it. The quality of the photos depends on the matrix. In DSLR cameras for beginners and intermediate users the matrix is much bigger than that in the devices described earlier. In experts the matrix is even bigger and the frame is the same size as that of standard film that is 35 mm. Also, medium format cameras have even bigger matrixes. Still, because of their price only a few people could afford to buy them. They, however, will never read this article:). Because of the bigger matrix DSLR cameras have a high value of ISO (sometimes this value reaches 100000) and better control the depth of the field as well. The second essentialsignificant thing is interchangeable optical equipment. Previously, I have already told that a low-end compact lens with good optical specifications can't have a wide range of the foal length. If you spend some additional money on interchangeable optics, you will solve this problem (one should spend everything to get high quality :)). To get high quality one should always pay a lot. If you made up your mind to buy a DSLR camera with the kit-lens, you will soon find out that the lens is not very good (of course there might be exceptions and the kit-lens might have higher quality). And regarding the quality of kit-lenses in DSLR cameras, one can claim that lenses in ultra zoom cameras can have higher quality. And then you will have to splash out on a better lens. It's ok if you are taking pictures of the same genre. Then you can manage with only one lens. But if you are interested in various genres, be ready to splash out on some lenses. Undoubtedly, you can save on buying lenses made by other companies (Tamron, Sigma,Tokina) or used lenses or use old lenses made in the Soviet Union with the connector. Having experimented with all this, however, you will soon accept that you will not win. But if you have bought a good lens, then if you use it rightly, the pictures will be awesome.
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