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help a tech thicko!!!
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i want to get my bf a digital camera for his birthday, but i don't know what is the best sort or what any of the jargon is...not even sure what a pixel is??
please can someone tell me in the most dumbed down way possible what i need to look for in a good camera?
thanks!
ps- i dont want to spend a huge amount £50-£60 is all i can afford
please can someone tell me in the most dumbed down way possible what i need to look for in a good camera?
thanks!
ps- i dont want to spend a huge amount £50-£60 is all i can afford
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optical zoom is how much you can zoom in to detail
digital zoom is simply enlarging the detail u already have (not giving any more detail)
dont think theres much else u need to know...
Also you may look for one with optical zoom - most will have a digital zoom, however this reduces the quality.
Also one with a tft screen - most nowadays come with these.
Most come with internal memory - usually 16mb - however a memory card can be bought cheaply to increase it
My advice is to shop around - many different cameras with different specs and with a huge range in prices.
For the best quality, stick with the big brand names in photography, or at the very least the big electronics manufacturers. There are plenty of cheapo digiatal cameras out there, but they don't often deliver the goods as far as quality and usability go.
Later on then you could look at decent makes with a high number of megapixels (3 is your minimum for decent printing at 6x4), optical zoom, rechargable battery, etc. Be wary of if they describe a camera as "interpolated" because it essentially means that it makes up half the pixels itself rather than photographing a true image at whatever number of pixels.
Pixels is just that really. It's a measure of how big your picture is going to be. A picture that is 1000 pixels on the x-axis and 1000 pixels on the y-axis has an area of 1 megapixels (mega=million).
That's the main thing I don't like about digicam manufacturers. They only give it in terms of megapixels, and don't divide it out into x / y. For example my 4 megapixel camera divides out into approx 2200 x 1700.