Five Basic Tips to Buy Digital Camera

Everyone enjoys taking photos of their children, especially during the holidays. These days it's great that you don't have to raise the film, make prints, and then mail them to the relatives. With digital cameras, you can just download the photos and send emails. Sharing photos through those you love has never been easier. If you want to get rid of the old film based camera and buy a digital, these types of tips providing help you.

1. Do the research. While heading to a shop and seeing dozens of wonderful looking digital cameras might be a bit overwhelming, making informed can take home the experience easier. Learn how each feature does and what do the reviews say about different models. Know what memory, optical zoom or megapixels really mean.

2. Know what you need. Once you know everything there is to know about the features of each digital camera, try figuring out what will you do with it. Is your purpose to take photos and mail them to friends? Do you want high resolution prints? Will you take a lot of photos, or only a few from era to time?

3. Choose a budget. Buying a digital camera such days can set you back anywhere from $100 to $1000. While having a lot of options sounds good, if you don't need a feature, why pay for it? If you want a nice camera with some basic options, the price will be around $300.

4. What kind of resolution do you need? One element that can make all the difference is the number of megapixels. The photo quality is better with further megapixels. Two megapixels in resolution is all you need for a 5x7 print. For 8x10 prints you when go with a camera with at least 3 megapixels. If you want better prints, go with cameras that have at least 5 megapixels.
5. Choose a camera with sharp optical zoom. If you have great optical zoom, you can get good photos of matters that are much further away. If you have a choice between digital and optical zoom, always go with the optical zoom. While digital zoom will increase the size of the photo, the quality will be distorted. Optical zoom on the a larger number of hand will give you a astronomical quality photo.