Digital Camera - What Do You Really Need?
Any digital camera that you spend at least two hundred dollars for will likely do what you want it to do. Even the cheap ones now have over 1 megapixel. They all have automatic exposure, a color LCD screen for viewing, and removable storage. Even the inexpensive ones have a zoom lens for magnifying your image.
If you have the minimum specs you have everything necessary to take great pictures. Remember its the photographer, not the camera that produces the best pictures.
If you want to spend more money you will be buying a few more capabilities like better zoom lens, higher resolution and maybe a better built-in flash. But these enhancements aren't really necessary for good pictures. You should begin with a less expensive camera and practice until you become proficient with taking good pictures with that, before moving on to a more expensive and possibly more complicated camera.
I would suggest you start with a camera with 2 - 4 megapixels. A camera with 2 megapixels gives you enough detail for decent 6 x 8 pictures. This camera will also capture enough information to allow some cropping.
A 1 t0 1.5 megapixel camera can be used for photos of smaller size and for images for web pages. I still use a 1.3 megapixel camera for pictures for my eBay auctions and have no problem capturing sufficient detail.
Besides the number of pixels, the zoom lens may be important to you. Less expensive cameras generally have a 2:2 to 3:1 zoom which is usually plenty for the beginning photographer. As I said learn from the less expensive digital cameras and then progress to the more expensive cameras with all of their gadgets.
Ron buys and sells digital cameras and writes informational articles on the purchasing and proper use of digital cameras. Visit his site at http://www.hotdigitalcameradeals.com
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