| Basically a digital camera is a deice use to | | | | thinking that the millions of tiny solar |
| capture pictures without the use of films. | | | | cells, each of which forms a part of the |
| Unlike the conventional camera, the digital | | | | whole image. Both CCD and CMOS do this task |
| camera does not rely on mechanical and | | | | using different methods. |
| chemical processes. It has a built in | | | | |
| computer and records the images it captures | | | | When shopping for the best digital camera, |
| in an electronic form. Having and operating | | | | take note of these key features. |
| one does not even require the use of | | | | |
| electricity. | | | | Image quality. Check the resolution of the |
| | | | camera. The higher the resolution, the more |
| Since the images that a digital camera | | | | thou will be able to enlarge your picture |
| captures is in electronic form, it is a | | | | without the grainy or the out-of-focus effect |
| language recognized by computers. This | | | | that we all want to avoid. |
| language is called pixels, tiny colored dots | | | | |
| represented by ones and zeros that make up | | | | Lens. Choose a digital camera with better |
| the picture that you just took. Just like any | | | | digital zoom. The digital zoom of the camera |
| conventional cameras, a digital camera is | | | | will enable you take the pixels from the |
| furnished with a series of lenses that focus | | | | image sensor and incorporate them to make an |
| the light and creates the image that you want | | | | image. |
| to capture. The difference here is then; a | | | | |
| conventional camera focuses its light on a | | | | Power. Always opt for rechargeable |
| film while a digital camera focuses the light | | | | batteries, they can always come in handy, |
| into a semiconductor device that | | | | plus you don't waste as much money on the |
| electronically records the light. Remember | | | | disposable ones. |
| the built in computer, it comes in here and | | | | |
| breaks this information to digital data | | | | Options. So you can brag to your friends how |
| resulting to all the features of the digital | | | | good a photographer or artist you are. Or |
| camera. | | | | choose the one that gives options that best |
| | | | cater to your lifestyle, so you won't ever |
| Another feature of the digital camera is | | | | whine how you never get the right pictures. |
| that it has a sensor that converts light into | | | | |
| electrical charges. A charge coupled device | | | | Memory. If you're a photo freak, be sure |
| or CCD is an image sensor that is found in a | | | | that you have enough memory in your camera to |
| digital camera. While other low-end digital | | | | take all the wacky, freaky, funny and just |
| camera use complementary metal oxide | | | | about any photo you can. Think 512MB if |
| semiconductor or CMOS as an image device, it | | | | you're a photo junkie and takes pictures of |
| can still become better and more famous in | | | | just about anything. |
| the future but most engineers are do not | | | | |
| believe that it can replace the CCD for | | | | Computer Interface. Always make sure that it |
| higher-end digital cameras. | | | | is compatible with your PC, laptop, palmtop |
| | | | or whatever your local picture printer |
| A collection of tiny diodes, the CCD gathers | | | | software is, you don't want to go running |
| electrons when they are struck by photons or | | | | around the whole state or the country looking |
| the light particles. Each diode or photosite | | | | for a computer that's compatible with your |
| is sensitive to light, meaning that the | | | | digital camera, wont you?! |
| brighter the light, the number of the | | | | |
| electrons gathering will be larger | | | | Physical. If you are going to be bringing it |
| | | | everywhere, choose a handy and portable |
| The price of a digital camera nowadays have | | | | digital camera. This way, it won't always |
| been depreciating, one of the main reasons of | | | | feel as heavy and bulky as those cameras that |
| this is because of the introduction of CMOS | | | | you see professional photographers are always |
| image sensors, this is because CMOS sensors | | | | dragging on their neck. Don't they ever get |
| are less expensive and are easier to | | | | tired of that?! |
| manufacture than CCD sensors. A CCD and CMOS | | | | |
| sensor works the same way at first, by | | | | These are just the basic things you have to |
| converting the light electrical charges into | | | | look for in a digital camera when you buy |
| photosites. Simply putting it, is to think | | | | one. |
| that a digital camera works in such a way as | | | | |