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Top 10 Digital Camera Buying Tips
Top 10 Digital Camera Buying Tips
Thinking of buying a new Digital Camera? Here are 10 important things you should consider before you purchase your camera. http://www.3min-reports.com/10-buying-tips.html |
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Top 10 Digital Camera Buying Tips
Info Dude wrote:
Top 10 Digital Camera Buying Tips Thinking of buying a new Digital Camera? Here are 10 important things you should consider before you purchase your camera. http://www.3min-reports.com/10-buying-tips.html Executive summary: Someone wants to have his google ads viewed. (Spammer?) The content is, ah, of dubious quality. Think "redneck politican explaining the internet --- in 1996": no understanding, no experience, just parrotting what others said, and mangling the information. Details: | Viewfinder: Low-end digital cameras provide an optical | viewfinder while more expensive ones replace the viewfinder | with a LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). Look towards purchasing | one with an LCD display. I really really love my "low end" DSLR. | With a fixed-focus lens everything from a few feet to | infinity is in focus. The only problem with this is when | shooting pictures up close. Interesting, there is no problem at night ... | Autofocus will automatically bring whatever is in the centre of | the viewfinder into focus. Ah, yes, there is only the center AF point, ever, and it can focus things right on the lens, too --- always. Oh, and it works in total darkness. | Compression: If you want the highest possible image quality, | look for a camera that will let you save pictures in "CCD raw | mode" which means with no compression at all. Oh, but they _are_ compressed. Loslessly, yes, but compressed. And you cannot even print or view them without developing them in some way, which is of course a completely minor point ... which does not need to be mentioned. [rechargeable batteries] | There are three varieties of batteries available Nickel Cadmium | (NiCad), Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) and Lithium-ion (Li-ion | or LiOn). "Poof" make lithium-polymer cells all over the world, as they cease to exist! (And of course: there is no difference between them.) | To save battery power, use a camera that accepts an AC | adaptor. How about "Choose a camera with a long battery life, and buy an extra battery" instead? Or do power outlets follow you around? | | Interface: If you are interested in maximum speed you should | keep your eyes open for cameras and card readers that support | FireWire. Bah. Interface download speed is irrelevant compared to shutter lag. Though there is a grain of salt in the Use a card reader (a fast one by preference), and ignore whatever the camera offers. The difference between real USB2 and firewire is negible. Except that there are more computers with USB2. -Wolfgang |
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