Now a camera is in every home, because it is a completely necessary thing: to photograph a child, and to capture a family celebration. In addition, the market for photographic equipment is constantly replenished with new products, old models are getting cheaper before our eyes, so you can easily buy a camera.
Digital cameras: present and future
It is not a problem to buy a camera for a beginner who goes to the store and buys what his eyes fall on. But if a person begins to prepare, read reviews about cameras on the Internet, compare and look for the best, then difficulties arise in choosing.
Film cameras are irrevocably a thing of the past, because now it is easier to take pictures with a digital camera and immediately see what happened on a computer. In addition, the computer makes it possible to edit the resulting image at your own discretion. This is convenient, because in the last decade, digital cameras have rapidly captured the entire market in this segment.
Among digital cameras, there are at least a soap dish, a compact, and a SLR camera. How to make a choice? You can, of course, ask the seller in the store. However, it often turns out that he knows even less of his customer. Or, on the contrary, it will fill up with a bunch of incomprehensible, meaningless terms for an uninitiated person.
So, first you need to decide what exactly you need a camera for and what budget is laid down for this purchase. Then you need to arm yourself with a little knowledge in the field of photography.
It is worth knowing that a soap dish is a fully automatic camera, which has a flash and a non-removable lens, more often a zoom. This is one of the cheapest and most affordable types of photographic equipment. For example, the most inexpensive options: Panasonic GF3, Olympus E-PM1. Today, prices for soap dish cameras start at 2.5 thousand rubles.
Compact - the camera is a class higher than a soap dish, and therefore costs more. It has manual settings that are not available with an automatic soap dish. It also has a lot of weight in comparison with soap dishes, the best photosensor (matrix) and a lens that has good aperture. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 will be a good option among compacts.
SLR cameras have manual adjustment of all elements, and the main settings are made for convenience directly on the camera body, and not hidden in the menu, like a compact. Mirrors have the ability to change optics, which is not the case with a soap dish and a compact, as well as a large high-quality matrix. They are quite heavy. This is the best thing you can get from cameras. Although their cost starts from 25 thousand rubles. However, a DSLR can capture objects in motion, which is not the case with a soap dish. The Nikon D5100 SLR camera will be a good purchase.
"Advanced" compact
If there is no money for a SLR camera, then purchase an "advanced" compact with the ability to change optics from non-mirrors. If you look well, you can find a camera with a large, like a DSLR, matrix. In general, the quality of the matrix when choosing a camera is important, because it is in this place that the image is born. The ability to change lenses is not the last characteristic of a camera, because each lens serves a different purpose. Canon PowerShot SX120 IS, Nikon Coolpix L110, Nikon Coolpix P500 are compact non-mirror cameras of good quality.
