Digi Buy Guide

Digital Cameras come in all shapes and sizes. Each camera has its own unique selling proposition. Some are stylish, some are slim, some are feature rich and some have a little of everything. Understanding the different types of digital cameras helps in deciding what type of camera to research on.

Easy To Use Digital Cameras

A Easy to use digital camera will be more of a point-and-shoot camera. It will not have any complicated feature set. It will be very easy to take pictures. What you will compromise with this kind of camera is manual controls, sophisticated features. The other advantage, other than easy to operate, is price. They are normally priced lower than any highly sophisticated camera.

Feature Rich Digital Cameras

A few cameras come with all the features under the sun. They could vary from lower priced, small form cameras to heavy and big cameras. These cameras will have a complicated menu system to access each of the features, apart from a small set of regularly used features, which are set as buttons on the camera. The highest end, with all the features will be the Prosumer camera.

Mega Zoom Digital Cameras

As the title suggests, these have large zooms. They also come from low end small form cameras to high end prosumer cameras. When you are considering a mega zoom camera, it is a must to have Image Stabilization. For more information, look at Digital Camera Features That Matter.

Pocketable or Compact Digital Cameras

These are small form cameras that are slim and small. They are priced from low to medium, highest being prosumer cameras (Digital SLR cameras are in a league of their own). Most of them are stylish looking and will turn heads. These easily fit into your pockets, as the title suggests.

Wide Angle Zoom Digital Cameas

Another breed of digital cameras that are helpful in taking scenery pictures, group photos and sports photos. They also range from low priced small form cameras to feature rich high end cameras.

Digital Cameras for Traveling

For travel purposes any pocketable digital camera would do, depending on features required and what price range you are looking at. Most helpful will be easy to use, pocketable, wide angel zoom digital cameras. That will cover different situations you might face: Easy to carry and light weight, quick to take snaps of quick events, can take scenic pictures.

Budget Digital Cameras

These are nothing but low priced easy to use digital cameras.

Try to understand your requirements, and see what kind of camera will fit into those requirements.