Digital Cameras for the Non-Techie

Digital Cameras

There are many different digital camera's out on the market now, and so many different styles to choose from.  But what if you have never owned a digital camera?  And are you interested in maybe purchasing one soon to replace your regular 35mm film camera?  Making the choice to switch over to digital is something many people choose to do every day.  Main reasons come from all the benefits involved in digital over film.  Professional photographers may prefer to stay with film cameras, however, because of their unique ability to capture a specific color or an amazing way to portray an object in such a way as to bring out the significance of it.  But we aren't talking about something as difficult to photograph as the Mona Lisa was to paint.  This is about taking pictures of loved ones with the family, or your child's soccer game.  If this is something you've had on your mind, then it's time to start thinking about the advantages.

Many digital cameras in our present day almost always take SD cards.  These are also known as Secure Digital cards (SD) and can hold anywhere from 4mb to 4Gigs.  The term MB stands for Megabyte, and the term Gig stands for Gigabyte.  If you are not sure how big these things are, then take this for example:

Most digital cameras take snap shots at 3.0 Mega Pixels or higher (The explanation to this will come later.)  and to take the picture, it needs an average of 1 MB to take the picture.  So if you were to have a 4 MB SD card, you would only be able to take about 3 pictures.  But to think if you had a 4 Gig SD card, you would have thousands more pictures.  A gig is 1000 MB's, so a 4 Gig SD card would hold about 4,000 pictures on one small card.