Digital-Camera

Why would I want to buy a Digital-Camera?

• Cost Savings

The advantage of a digital photography is that it stores images digitally rather than recording them on film.  Instead of the old 24 or 36 shots in film cameras, you can take hundreds, all stored in the memory of your camera. 

The big advantage of a digital-camera is that making photos is both inexpensive and fast because there is no film processing. Interestingly, one of the biggest boosters of digital photography is Kodak, the largest producer of film. Kodak developed the Kodak PhotoCD format, which has become the de facto standard for storing digital photographs.

• Can e-mail digital pictures

All e-mail programs, Windows Outlook or the popular Firefox that you can download from the Internet, make it easy to attach photos to an e-mail when you want to share one or more photos with friends and family. While you are writing an e-mail, and you decide to share photos, you only need to look at the icons usually run along the length of the screen, and you will notice one called “attachment” and often uses the symbol of a ‘paper clip’ to denote the term.  You click on this icon and then you are next asked where you want to go to find this attachment.  Attachments can be anything found in your files, on your desktop, etc., but if you want to send a picture you just saved in your ‘picture’ file, you click however necessary to get to where the photo is stored.

• Pictures are easily managed

A 21st century technology that adapted to the world, the digital-camera!  It comes in palm size, full size, rainbow of colors & models made specially for kids, and seemingly endless storage capacity in many version, and allows you to view any and all photos taken, or delete any photo, keeping only the best!  It is so easy to use, it is fun to use. Camera’s have come of age.

• You can edit pictures on computer (Remove "red-eye", lighten or darken, if needed, etc)

Once pictures have been taken, it can be downloaded to a computer system and then manipulated with a graphics program and printed. Unlike film photographs, which have an almost infinite resolution, digital photos are limited by the amount of memory in the camera, the optical resolution of the digitizing mechanism, and, finally, by the resolution of the final output device, usually a printer.

Once stored, you can use software to crop your photos, remove red-eye, adjust contrast, brightness and more, to improve the quality of the picture, how and what you are trying to capture and the quality of the image itself.  This self-editing of photos greatly enhances the artistry of the photo, if so desired or necessary.

• You can print pictures any size, as many as you want (within limits, of course!)

Once stored, you can use software to crop your photos, remove red-eye, adjust contrast, brightness and more, to improve the quality of the picture, how and what you are trying to capture and the quality of the image itself.  This self-editing of photos greatly enhances the artistry of the photo, if so desired or necessary.

• Digital-Camera can hold thousands of pictures, without buying film

With digital photography, you can store as many pictures, as the camera memory can hold. A standard camera may hold up to 100 pictures, and you can upgrade memory to hold hundreds or more! I just added a memory chip to my digital, and now it holds over 2000 pictures!

Digital Point and Shoot	Modest Cost Digital Cameras	Digital SLR Cameras	Good Quality Digital Cameras

Inexpensive Point & Shoot digital-cameras start for under $ 50. They will have some features that are better than a cell phone, usually. Such as some telephoto capability, or lighting enhancements, such as flash, etc. I have a modest cost Digital (Point & Shoot). It is small, lightweight, and a decent range of adjustments for telephot, lighting, movies etc. My wife prefers point and shoot. But now, I'm in the market for a good quality SLR, and hope to have one soon!

Digital SLR Guide

If you are not up to speed on digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex) cameras, go to this site and get started!

Links for Digital Cameras

Top 10 compact digital cameras of 2011 (Holiday Gift Guide)

11/22/11 Update:

Currently we have two digital cameras and 2 cell phones. Each Cell phone is a pretty decent camera, and is always available! We have A Nikon Coolpix camera, that does an excellent job, but is a little large. When we are serious about good pictures, we carry this. We also have our old "point and shoot Canon", which we have with us a lot, because it is small, and takes some pretty good pictures. Both cameras have telephoto lenses, but the Nikon Coolpix is far superior! My wife and I took photography classes at Ritz camera, and this has made a big difference in our pictures! Norm

Luminous Landscape - popular link for Photograhers

This website gives tips, instructions on photography.

Nikon L110 26194 12.1MP Coolpix Digital Camera - 12MP, 15X Zoom, 3" LCD, HD Movies, Black

Good starter Digital SLR. This is simple to operate, relatively modest cost. You can get really good pictures at a modest cost.

This camera is a compromise between point and shoot(with telephoto), and also offers the abilty to control your picture!

Nikon D5000 12.3MP Digital SLR & 18-55mm VR Lens and Nikkor AF-S DX 55-300mm ED VR Lens Bundle

This includes 18-55mm VR lens and DX 55-300 VR lens, which adds tremendous telephoto capability, which to me is a must!

My wife wouldn't like this one, too complicated. I would love it - such a great range of picture capabilities!

Nikon D5000 25454 Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm VR Lens - 12.3 Megapixel, SD/SDHC, HDMI, USB

This includes 18-55mm VR lens and DX 55-300 VR lens only

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TigerDirect - Digital Video Cameras

Check this out for some good camers at good prices!

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