I wasn’t sure which camera would be best so I went to my local photographic shop and talked to a sales representative. He helped me sort through the features and select a digital camera that would be best for my project.

 

If you’re a technology freak, you’ve probably owned a digital camera for years. But for someone like me, making the switch from traditional photographs to a digital format involved a leap of faith. It’s not that I don’t appreciate technology, I just wondered how good the pictures would be from a digital camera when compared to my trusty 35mm. So I bought the camera, brought it home, and began snapping pictures.

 

One feature that I really appreciate about a digital camera is the ability to review the pictures before printing and saving them. You can take a series of photos and then choose the best one without worrying about wasting film. But the most important feature, the one I was most worried about, was the quality and I have to say that I was very impressed with my camera’s ability to turn out even better pictures than the ones taken with my 35mm.

 

Digital cameras have come a long way over the last few years, and now you can buy one with so many features that, if you’re an amateur photographer like me, you’d never even use. That’s why it’s a good idea to talk to someone knowledgeable when you’re buying a digital camera for the first time,(before trotting off to Ebay!) so that you can decide which features you need and which features you can do without.

 

Since I would be mainly taking pictures of my family, I didn’t need a digital camera with a tremendous zoom feature. But because I would be taking photographs most every day for a year, I did need a digital camera with a good battery. It's not a bit of use having a camera that only lasts 2 hours.

 

These were just a couple of the features I talked about with the sales rep and as a result he pointed me in the direction of a reasonably priced digital camera instead of choosing a high-end professional camera with all the special features that I would hardly, if ever, make use of.

 

I did end up spending extra money to get a digital camera with a good battery, but it was worth it because I hardly ever ran out of juice during an important event.