Best Photography Camera For Beginners

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Entering a camera store to buy a good camera for beginners can be quite intimidating for an amateur photographer. One enters with the mindset of buying the cheapest professional camera for beginners that offers maximum features. So what is the best camera choice for beginners? A point and shoot camera or a digital SLR camera? The more camera reviews you read, the more you are bound to get confused as to which camera to buy for a beginner like yourself. Balance, pixel, dpi, ppi, optical zoom, digital zoom and many such words can throw you out of gear.

Guide to buy best camera for beginners

The following points will not only increase your knowledge of camera specifications, but also help you in choosing the best camera.

Expectations - Be clear about what you expect your camera to deliver before you go and splurge on an expensive digital camera. Though the digital camera has come of age and competes with 35mm film, but without the knowledge of how to use a camera and Photoshop, you will not be able to achieve good results.

Megapixels - Megapixel simply means "million picture elements" or the dots that ...
... make up the image. How do you decide how many you need? That depends on your use. To put up pictures on the web, 1.3 megapixel should do just fine or if you want a decent quality 11x8" print, a 4 megapixel digital camera is the one you should go for.

Lens - To decide on length specification, you need to identify if you would be using the zoom feature or not. As digital cameras have a much smaller image area than a big 35mm negative, they need a very short focal length to achieve the magnification. If you need a really wide angle, then go for a camera at the higher end of the scale.

SLR (Single Lens Reflex) cameras with interchangeable lens are used by professionals. They are available in digital variants and their prices are reducing fast.

Shutter Lag- Before the picture is actually clicked, the camera needs to focus, work out exposure and do many other things to record the image. The time it takes from the shutter being released to recording the picture is called shutter lag. The best way to take a picture is half press the click button or pre-focus. The digital camera will adjust its settings and then the final click will record the picture at the decisive moment.

Flash and memory card - For these two specifications, there isn't much to worry about and you can just go in for what the digital camera is offering as there is not much difference in one spec to the other.

Power - Well, the longer it lasts, the better it is! You can get powerful lithium ion batteries for best performance.

Here are the photography cameras in the market that best fit the above criteria:

" Best prosumer dSLR camera- Nikon D7000 (Body Only)-$764.99 - $1,499.95

" Best dSLR under $1000 camera-Canon EOS Rebel T3i (with 18-55mm IS II lens)- $469.99 - $998.00

" Best interchangeable-lens compact camera- Sony Alpha NEX-6 (with 16-50mm PZ lens) - $998.00 - $999.99

" Best prosumer compact camera- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100- $574.99 - $649.99

" Best consumer compact camera- Canon PowerShot SX260 HS (Black) - $213.99 - $325.99

" Best budget compact camera- Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS (Black) - $171.90 - $199.95

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