Things to consider before buy digital camera for the first time

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Almost every month, digital company released new digital camera product. That is making the digital camera types grow up fast in past few years. For the costumer side this is a good thing, because the costumer has a lot of choices. But for you, the first time buyers, the choices sometime make you confused because of the variety type and features of the camera you want to buy. If you feel a little bit dizzy decided which one to buy, you should sizzling the type of digital camera you want to buy, by questioning yourself with these questions.

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  How much is your budget?
  No matter what your needs and wants are for the device, your financial resource will play a huge part in dictating the type of digital camera you will buy. For example: If your budget under $200, you cannot buy digital SLR camera because the price is beyond your budget.
  
  
  
  
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  What is your purpose having digital camera?
  If just want to make documentation your family daily live, you should buy pocket digital camera that easy to use and has automatic feature. You don't have to have knowledge about lighting, focusing, zooming etc because the compact digital camera has it all, in push of one button.
  
  

After having those questions answered, now you have to add a few checklists about the features that you want to embed on your gadget. And here they are:

1. Resolution. It determines by the pixel that it has. The more pixels there are the good picture resolution that the camera produce. Usually the more pixels that it has, the more expensive is the price, but the more quality photo that it produced.
   
2. Lens zoom. How far do you want to take the picture? It depends of the optical and the digital zoom that it has. Minimal 5x optical zoom it good enough to take as far as 50 meters object.
   
3. Digital memory. There are two types of digital memory that should have on your gadget. Built in memory and external memory (it should have memory card slot; SSD card, micro SD, SD card etc. How many photo that you can storage on is depend how large is your memory card.
   
4. Friendly interface menu. The entire digital camera has an interface menu for the features use. Before decided to buy look up the menu first if you feel the menu is easy to understand then the gadget is yours.
   
5. Battery. You should consider how long is the battery can support the camera when it's on and it should be rechargeable. The Li-on battery is good enough to support the camera when you it use.
   

Those are the minimum item that you should consider before you buy digital camera, you can add some other item to checklist such as; the special features that camera has (every brand has its own special feature as their pre-eminence features). I hope you now can figure out what is your digital camera type that you want to buy. Check out digital camera product review in my next post. See ya!!