Are You Getting Good Value For Your Digital Camera Dollar?
Everyone thinks they know what’s best when it comes to big purchases. But, if that were true we wouldn’t need salespeople, and buying guides. The sheer width and breadth of the internet would shrivel fast. We all need a little help sometime. When buying a digital camera, you want to buy for the right reasons, and have a sound understanding of what those reasons are. Buying the latest and greatest is generally not one of them. The camera is only a tool, and it’s the artist using the tool that has the most influence over the final work.
If you already own a compact digital camera and you already master it, you might want to upgrade and get a DSLR. A DSLR will allow you to take your photos to a whole new level, both in quality and level of detail. DSLR’s also let you change their lenses. For example you can use a wide lens to catch more of a landscape in a photo, or you can use a telephoto lens to take a photo of some lions that are resting.
Before the advent of digital cameras, it was harder for Canon, Sony, Kodak, Nikon or Kodak to come up enough new features to convince customers they should upgrade their cameras. So they didn’t.
The budget is probably the most important factor in buying a new camera. Each market segment gets new digital cameras from manufacturers. If you know how many digital cameras are launched each year, you already know that you can’t have all of them.
Basically, when you buy a new camera, you lose the value of the old one since you’re not using it.
What’s most important here, is to understand what your getting into with SLR. It does allow for more control over your photography, but also assumes you have more understanding of what makes a good picture. Controlling aperture, f-stop, color balance, focal length and metering are good things to know here. You can of course use the default auto settings forever, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having an SLR.
The camera manufactures haven’t missed out out on the new digital camera paradigm, it’s time the average consumer started realizing it as well.
In the end, what really matters is good pictures. And the means to that end, is knowing what you want and where to get it. If you want to take the best pictures you can, then educate yourself before and after your purchase. Before will get you the best tool possible, and afterward to help you make better use of the camera in your hands.
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