Question
I want to buy a new digital camera but dont know which features are most important. I like a good zoom.?
Answer
Hey there,brWell, assuming you are not going to go all hog wild and have a Digital top of the line, lense replaceable SLR camera, there ARE some thing you can be sure to get in a regular quotpoint and shootquot digital camera.brbrFirst off, even the cheapest cam now has plenty of resolution unless you want to print huge posters! So, megapixel min should be easy to meet.brbrThe Second thing is Zoom, with optical or other type of stabilization! It will say if and what it has. Why does that matter? Well, you want at LEAST x zoom as that lets you quotframequot your picture from a distance. kind of hard to walk up to the football player and have him pose! Best would be or X zoom! And if you zoom THAT much, you need something to keep the picture from jiggling, so stabilization does that. Also, using stabilization, you can take pictures without the flash in dimmer light! That is a huge deal.. lots of times using flash is not allowed, and even if it IS allowed, natural light pics look so so much better, not all washed out and the same. Natural light lets you have shadows and depth in your shots.brbrRelated to that is how quotfastquot your glass is, ie the lens you have built in to the camera. You want at least an F Stop how far open the aperture can get for dim lighting shots without flash of . min. . would be best.brAnd a quotlow noisequot high ISO or or so would be great! That is equivalent to that fast film you would use to take pics inside without a flash, at a wedding or something.brbrAnd VERY important is how FAST you can take a picture upon turning it on and pushing the shutter, AND how fast yo can take the second picture after the first! Digital cams are sucky sometimes, you push the button cause little billy did something cute, and by the time the camera takes the flipping picture, little billy is in College! jeezbrbrso, good zoom, fast glass, stabilization, fast response.. all normal things that film cams do well mostly, and dig cams are getting better at! A new cam is much better mostly.