Types of Digital Camera Shoppers
July 23rd, 2009 | Published in Guides
Every person has different reasons for a buying a digital camera. Using the reasons, we can categorize them into the following categories:
Traveller
A traveller would like to have a light weight compact digital camera or a high end most powerful digital camera. Some of them try to have both for different scenarios. The compact and light weight camera is easily pocketable and can be carried easily to any place. It is easy to switch it on and start taking snaps at a very short notice. The more powerful cameras (mostly Digital SLR cameras or Prosumer cameras) are bulky and cannot be carried in a pocket. The time it takes for you to remove the camera from the camera bag and switch it on and adjust the mode for a snap, the moment would have gone. You need to decide if you want to carry two cameras or just one pocketable compact camera.
Parent Photographers
Parent Photographers are mainly looking to take snaps of their kids. Everything else is secondary to them. Kids don’t stay at one place and the moments are of very short time span. It is very difficult to take good snaps of kids. You need a very fast reacting camera (auto focuses very fast and there is very little lag between snaps). Also, you want a camera that can take good snaps indoors and in shades.
Budget Buyer
Budgets are the ones who don’t want to spend too much money on a camera. They are also not looking for highly sophisticated cameras. Nowadays prices of digital cameras have gone down a lot. There are enough cameras to choose from for budget buyers. These will be mostly aim-and-shoot cameras.
Snapshooter
Snapshooter wants to just aim-and-shoot lots of pictures. They don’t want to fuss around with too many options. Again here, the best are the aim-and-shoot cameras. But, unlike Budget Buyers, they have a little bit more options where they can go for sleek and stylish cameras as well which won’t fall into budget cameras.
Knowing which type of buyer you are, will help in cutting down the number of cameras to choose from and will make your life a lot easier.
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