What is the best digital camera?

Question

For the best photos, and the easiest to use?

Answer 1

The best is the most expensive one you can afford. Now is there a price range you're looking at here, a type of digital camera or are you just swinging in the wind and hoping for the best?



Your typical pocket camera will have a optical zoom of 3X which isn't all that much and a digital zoom of up to 20X. The digital zoom just increases the size of the picture including all the noise. Some may have an optical zoom as much as 7X but this is normally a cheat done with mirrors. These are for the amateur picture taker and the pics aren't all that great.



Then you have your SLR digital cameras that look like regular film cameras. These are the ones with lenses you can change, better focal depth, better zoom capabilities and better all around. These are more so for serious photographers as they can fiddle with all the f-stops and stuff like that.

Answer 2

Even though I personally own this camera, I would still like to highly recommend the purchase of a Nikon Coolpix L10 for the following reasons:



1. Besides taking well-exposed hi-quality 5 megapixel pictures, it uses a standard set of rechargeable double AA batteries which last a very long time;

2. Has a 3x optical zoom;

3. The flash setting for "red-eye" correction is on the navigator wheel and not within a submenu;

4. It's very small and light;

5. Uses inexpensive SD memory cards;

6. The digital video feature takes wonderful "sound" videos which are noise free. It records the piano very well with it's built-in microphone;

7. It comes with a USB 2.0 transfer cable which you connect to your USB computer port;

8. And the price is a mere $120 [sold at Samy's Camera - www.samys.com, and Staples.com.]



Good luck!

Answer 3

The camera for the most part is irrelavant. The photographer is the arbiter of the photograph, the camera is just a tool.



If you want the most flexibility and something that will grow with you for years and years to come, then an SLR or DSLR is th way to go. If you stick with one of the name brands like Nikon or Canon, you'll get yourself a good camera, no doubt.

Answer 4

Definitely virtual digital camera. It continuously has higher lens than digital camera mobilephone. Number of Mpix is much less principal than lens, consider. Digital digital camera has additionally higher constructed-in application than digital camera mobilephone.

Answer 5

Been there - anyone who says which camera says more about what kind of pictures they take. It's like asking which clothes to wear - well, are you going for a night's out to catch some dates, or are you going for an interview? Wouldn't dress up the same, would you? (I hope not)



It depends on what experience you've had with 35mm settings, with digital cameras. Do you want to shoot portraits? landscapes? close up of jewelry? do you want to make all kind of cool effects (one option on my camera is to pick one color and make the rest black and white)?



Then what do you want to do with the photos? send them to friends? print 4x6 photos? or try to sell them commercially? print out posters 20 x 30 inches? This will determine how many megapixels you'll need. Any digital camera gives you good enough resolution for viewing on your PC screen, print 4x6, and look at videos on your TV (super low resolution). But if you want to blow up posters, you'll need 10MP, and the price goes up.



My personal opinion is to pay for the minimum you need, and if need be, wait. The price of cameras goes down between 5% and 7% EVERY MONTH. Which means in one year, that super camera will be half off. So if you don't need it, wait. In general, Panasonic, Nikon and Canon are the leaders because of their lenses - they don't have as much curve (panasonic has changed its lenses to Leica now). Any basic model is user friendly, but if you've had experience with a 35mm and like the settings, a digital SLR will make you happy. Note that the main difference is that NO SLR will show you the image on the screen BEFORE you take it. And that's a major difference. On my canon g7 (and I had a Nikon L1 before that), if I chose "black and white" I could see what the image was going to look like in black and white BEFORE I took the picture, so I could make all the changes til I was happy. On a digital SLR, you'll see it AFTERWARDS... so you could be doing trial and error for a while if you don't know what aperture priority and shutter speed do to your photo...



Good luck and have fun!

Answer 6

Canon Powershot Series.

Answer 7

If you are looking to take action photos Sony has a nice 10 megapixel SLR that works great. It's "Continuous Burst Mode" catches real nice action shots with a speed of 3 frames per second.

Answer 8

Any of the Canon PowerShot series are great to use. They are small cameras but take great pictures. And they are not too expensive (I got mine for about $250).

Answer 9

It all depends on your price range.

If you don't want to spend enough to get an DSLR, get a superzoom camera like the Panasonic FZ series. They will give you ease of use, and the ability to have more control if you need it.

Answer 10

Canon Digital Elf-Powershot---I LOVE it

Answer 11

from experience, the canon powershot or digital elph series

Answer 12

Hasselblad H3D-39. 39 megapixels of power... for only $32,000... ;)

Answer 13

i recommend the panasonic lumix fx01, ridiculously easy to use.

Answer 14

for me is canon SLR's