Every other month, if not more frequently, a new series of digital cameras comes to the market, and the uninformed or indecisive buyer has to make a hard decision when choosing among the great range of models. With the clever buying options that we will stress out in this article, you will hopefully select one because of its real features instead of the bells and whistles that the sales people are boasting.

Most salesman, emphasize on promoting megapixels the more, the better. This is simply a selling method and is not very true. We will explain why not. This is merely a marketing technique and is not always true. We will explain why it’s only that! The picture made with a digital camera is constituted of a lot of points named pixels. The more pixels make up that photo, the more details it can present; in other words, the more megapixels a digital camera delivers, the more you can zoom into the picture, or print in a big comfortable size, before it will get blurry and unclear. Imagine, for example, of a 10×10 inch mosaic and suppose filling it up with 2×2, 1×1 and 0.1×0.1 inch picas the more pieces you use, the better the picture will be.

Because the cost of the digital camera increases with the amount of megapixels, you should first see for what you will use the digital camera for. If you will just use it to take shots for your website or probably won’t use to print pictures larger than a 5×7 there is no ground why you should go for something higher than a 4.0 MP camera. Save your money for other features and add-on rather than of investing in megapixels you will never use.

However, the main advantage you would get if you chose on spending more for a high resolution camera is cropping: a 9×12 picture taken at 5.0 megapixels can be resized to 8×10 and 5×7 without any problems.

Almost all present consumer cameras come with zoom possibility. This option can be particularly useful when taking a shot of something that is too far away and you have no possibility to get close to the subject, or you want to take a portrait without taking a lot of the distracting surrounding. Optical zoom option is the real magnifying characteristic; the digital camera magnifies the image through an assembly of lenses before the picture comes to the image sensor, while the digital zoom magnifies the picture that is already saved in the camera.

Be certain you understood the camera’s technical specifications well. The overall zoom is measured by multiplying the digital and optical zoom figures. Be certain that the optical zoom meets your needs and don’t rely on digital zoom at all, you can achieve its very same effect with any photo processing software package.

We recommend you check out Canon SD880IS. If you think Canon SD880IS is too expensive check out Canon SD1100IS.