How to choose the best camera for you
January 20th 2012 05:10
This is what you have to look at before you choose the right camera for you:
How much are you willing to spend, the resolution of the camera, lens,
storage media, photo file format, interfaces, exposure control, focus controls,
flashmodes, software, multimedia and any other extra features you would like.
* Types of Digital Camera Lenses:
There are Fixed lenses and Interchangeable lenses.
The Fixed lenses cannot be removed off the camera, this is ussually a
zoom lens that offers a certain level of optical magnification. Eventhough that
the lenses cannot be changed, sometimes is possible to fit adittional lenses
or filters on the front of the fixed lenses.
About the interchangeable lenses most film and digital SLR (single lens
reflex) cameras can be fitted with a range of lenses. Each camera has a
specific mount system. Any lens designed for that mount can be attached.
Converters are available allowing otherwise incompatible lenses to be fitted.
Larger lenses using higher quality parts are usually more expensive. Most
lenses have a thread at the front for attaching lens hoods and filters. For
these interchangeable lenses there are certain specificacion you should also
know about, those are as follow:
The most recognizable one is the ZOOM lenses...these have expansion
capabilities to bring far-away objects or images closer. The ones with digital
technology not only bring the image closer but they can also bring more
stability and subsequently more clarity to the image.
Another type of lenses are the PRIME lenses which are more appropriate for
protraits. They come in particular sizes and do not adjust like the zoom
lenses. This lenses work very well for close-up pictures by taking advantage
of the digital technology to provide photos made up with millions of pixels in
detail.
There are more proffessional types of lenses like the SPECIALIZED
LENSES, these are the macro lenses, fish-eye lenses, wide angle lens, and
pancake lenses...if you're interested in more proffessionalism let me know to
explain in detail.
*What is the resolution of your camera?
The resolution setting of your camera controls the size of the photo. The
digital cameras are measured by megapixels. The number of megapixels the
camera has is the maximum number of resolution. Pixels are tiny squares
and it's the element of the picture. One megapixel is a total of one million
pixels. A digital picture is made out of thousands or millions of pixels.
Your digital camera will let you choose your settings between a
maximum, medium or low quality. The resolution settings are usually listed
under "quality" in your main shooting menu and might be displayed by F
(fine), M (maximum) and L (low). The higher the quality of the resolution the
more space it takes in your memory card.
To choose your optimum resolution depends on what are you planning to
do with your pictures. If you're gonna print them physically you need the
highest resolution, if you're gonna post them in the internet you can choose
the lowest resolution (because network places don't display pictures at full
resolution).
*Types of storage media you can use.
This are the types of storage media that exists for digital cameras:
compact flash, secure digital, xD. Tomorrow I will explain in detail the
meaning and use for these devices.
Thanks for reading.
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