How To Pick The Best Camera

Buying a camera used to be easy, but not anymore. A few years ago megapixels were all that seemed to matter, especially in the SLR cameras, and whichever company could promise you the most megapixels would draw in the most interest and sales. But now we have reached the point where even cheap cameras have more than enough megapixels for most people, then the focus has changed to what features they can add instead.

The big problem with those features though is they make the cameras very hard to compare.When it was all about megapixels then you could look and if one had 6 and one had 9 megapixels then you knew that as long as everything else was the same that the one with 9 megapixels was better. Now if one can recognize faces better, and one has really good stabilization, how do you know which one is better for you? I think the best way now to compare cameras is to look up reviews that people have done for them. You can find them for almost anything you can imagine nowadays, even a pink digital camera will have a review online now.

So do a search online and try to find some reviews you think you can trust (not all reviews online are genuine) and that will give you a good idea of how useful those features are. Big websites like cnet.com will actually get given one of the cameras and then they will go out and do some tests with it to see if the features actually do what the manufacturer promises they will. Now you should whittle your list down to the ones you really like which also have some good reviews online, then the next step is to actually head out to a store where you can try them. This is important because sometimes the menus might seem ok to the reviewer, but would be awful to you, and the buttons are too small etc, so actually getting to try it out before you buy is a huge help.

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