What to look for in a digital camera

By Ashish Mohta

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• Rishi, March 3, 2007:

  Hmm … I agree! I have a major interest in photography and now I’m using my new cameraphone as much to shoot snaps!

  My family digicam is a Cybershot and its good, although I dont get it to operate!

  I’m willing to buy a new digicam, and will follow these things above in mind!

• Mr.Byte, March 4, 2007:

  another point, When you go for zoom, don’t fooled by the huge digital zoom, always look for only optical zoom…

• Shankar Ganesh, March 4, 2007:

  Wish you write something on apps dealing with photo management apps like Picasa, etc.

• Rishi, March 4, 2007:

  Mr. Byte - My choice is always of a mega pixel camera … with some high level zooming for better photography!

• Rishi, March 4, 2007:

  Shankar - Yup! Ashish, plz write something abt photo dealing softwares like Picasa!

• Ashish Mohta, March 4, 2007:

  I would disagree on just optical zoom.You got to know what you are looking for.

  @Rishi: I will make use you get one post on that.I have not digged Picasa but a review will be cool.Coming week any time.Juts keep coming back

• Sharique, March 4, 2007:

  Ashish,
  I kind of agree with Mr. Byte. Optical zoom should be the priority as digital zoom distorts the picture.

• Daman, March 4, 2007:

  what about digital zoom?

• Mr.Byte, March 4, 2007:

  @ Daman, Digital Zoom is of no use unless you want a very closer shot… the more you use digital zoom, the lesser the quality of picture… I would suggest, take a longer shot and then crop the image to your need in your computer…

• Mr.Byte, March 4, 2007:

  Brand does not affect the quality too much, but you get lots of features that makes it costly…
  carl zeiss lens has high quality but its costly again…

• Daman, March 4, 2007:

  hmm..
  people also talk a lot about ccd and cmos..
  is this a criteria of selection too??

• Thilak, March 5, 2007:

  Recently bought a Kodak C875 Zoom which satisfies all the above (8MO, 5X optical). Instead of Macro mode, It’s got something called Super Close Mode. Works like a charm and it’s damn cheap. Who will give you all these for 14.5K ??

  Its a hell lot better than Cybershot (entry-level version), which I previously owned. If you want something better than C875, go for Canon EOS and nothing else!

  I wish camera manufactures embed Bluetooth or Wi-Fi into the camera, USB is simply unacceptable (especially while on the move). I felt the lack of Bluetooth quite badly when I was at my grand mother’s place this evening. I had a laptop, but didn;t get the USB cable (Memory was full and I had to delete some pics).

  You should add Internal Memory Space to the above review (not a big issue for those who own jumbo cams, but.. it’s quite handy if you have more)

• lyndonmaxewell, March 5, 2007:

  Most common users will almost never have to or need to use the many advanced features that come along with a pricier camera. It would be great for most people to get an average camera in the middle range. I would rather opt for durability in the product itself.

• Mani, March 5, 2007:

  Hi Ashish,

  Good points there. Can i add one if you don’t mind?

  When selecting a digicam, if you are serious about the image quality, always go for anything above 6MP and don’t get carried away about the MP thing. Check if your cam can produce fairly good amount of file sizes for each image , that is somewhere around 50-70 MB per file in compressed Jpeg 3 format. If not, your cam is just not professional enough.

  

  Thanks much,
  Mani

• Ashish Mohta, March 6, 2007:

  @Mani: Sure you can thats what the discussions for.Feel free to put up your points.

  Intresting 6MP Our friends concluded on 5.I doubt on 50-70 MB file size. Anybody wanna discuss on that shoot a comment now!! I find this point interesting 5MP or 6MP?

  @Thilak: Super close mode is good.Whats the difference between them? You must have taken pictures what difference with easy of use and quality you find?

  @lyndon: I can agree with you on that but then those users are very normal and they are no so concerned about quality.For theme even 3MP camera that comes with mobile is good enbogh.

  @Thilak: I did talked about memory like 1Gb is good enough for any normal user, unless you are moving out for some wide range of photography and you are not satisfied with and you want to take more.

  Daman asked about ccd and cmos any ideas?

• Thilak, March 6, 2007:

  I dunno.. the difference between them is just the name. Kodak likes to focus on ease-of-use while designing the camera

• Big Daddy, July 25, 2007:

  Yup Bro,

  You forgot to mention the digital zoom part along with mentioning for the optical zoom part. Digital zoom is to enlarge a pic that you have already shot while an optical zoom is while you are ready to take a pic. So both are as important as its counterpart. I think you should go for a good combination for a dig along with optical zoom.

  Take Care:)
  Rajat

• Ashish Mohta, July 27, 2007:

  @Rajat: Thanks for providing your feedback. I have updated in the article. Will call you to night

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