Digital Envisions

It is very difficult to keep up with contemporary technology unless you stay within your own field of interest. The thing is that we all have many interests and although much of technology overlaps, it is not always applied in exactly the same way.

This means that if your passion is in computers, you may be able to keep up with that, but you will also need a microwave and a camera and a personal organizer, but you may not have the time to stay abreast of the latest developments there too. Most people have a camera nowadays, but not because they are professional photographers.

So, how do you apply the knowledge that you have gleaned from one interest to another, unrelated interest? Technology moves so quickly, that we get afraid of purchasing anything hi-tech because we know that it will be surpassed within months of buying it out of the box.

This beggars the question whether it is worth trying to be on the bow wave of technological evolution at all. If we do, are we not only playing a game, the rules of which were decided by the manufacturers? A game that we just can never win, because they deal the cards and one of their tactics is planned obsolescence.

We are told to remain ahead of the pack by being in possession of the best on the market; to have the latest model; the highest technology. The question to pose to ourselves is: do we truly need all; the power that we are buying. If we do not need it?

So what is important when buying a digital camera? The reply is that it has to fulfill your needs. So how do you make sure of that? The first thing to do is work out what you want to use the camera for.

Most people only need to take good quality photos or their friends, family and vacation destinations and otherwise the camera remains in a draw at home for all but 400-500 hours a year.out of 8,760. That is just 5-6% of the year. Here follows a couple of the items to look out for:

Megapixels: this number denotes the quality of the photograph, because they are the number of dots that create the picture.

The higher the number the better the photograph. Many cameras have seven megapixels, but photos of this size take up lots of memory and take a long time to email.

Lots of happy snappers turn the camera’s ability down to three, four or five megapixels, if they are only going to email their photographs to their friends and family or publish them on social media sites. If that is all you are going to do, why purchase more?

Screen Size: choose a size that you are able to see easily; big is not always worth paying for if you do not require it.

Zoom: the zoom on digital cameras is rarely used in day-to-day photography and digital zoom should not be used on board the camera at all anyway, because you can do that better with a computer program.

Memory Card: the larger the capacity of the card, the dearer it is, but you only need a large card if your photos are taken with lots of megapixels. The camera’s on-board RAM will hold dozens or even hundreds of ‘ordinary’ low-res photos.

The upshot of the question how to find the best digital camera, is to buy a camera that suits your requirements.

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