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Digital photography

 The demand for digital cameras is increasing from year to year. Since the first digital camera appeared on the market, benchmarks changed drastically in terms equipment and technology. Above all the image quality improved immensely in the last couple of years. At the same time, the prices for those devices sank. On the IFA the digital cameras newest of the various manufacturers are presented annually and is worthwhile themselves to pay attention to the small differences which are for the quality of crucial importance.

Primarily most buyers pay attention to the number of the megapixels. A few years ago, 3 to 4 megapixels were the top of the range, while today the newer models already exhibit over 8 million pixels, some up to 24 mega pixels. However the CCD (or CMOS) sensor plays a leading role. The rule of thumb is easy: The larger the sensor surface is and the fewer pixels there are, the better the luminous sensitivity and the noise behavior is in unfavorable lighting conditions. This is the major problem of most compact cameras, since they usually have very small sensors and very large number of pixels.

Many buyers have to decide whether they want to purchase a compact camera or a single lens reflex camera (SLR). The advantages of DSLRs, only offered by the large ones of the industry such as Canon, Nikon, Sony or Pentax are that the sensor chip is usually larger and thus the noise is significantly reduced. In addition one can change the lenses and in theory get a much larger focal length range. Because there are system accessories such as camera-lenses like telephoto lenses or macro lenses, external flash etc. it is an exciting challenge for experienced hobby photographers or professionals, to get the best out of these cameras. For those, who would just like to possess a camera, that shoots pictures as shrp as possible, but with the optimal structure of the camera to employ not for hours to want itself, surely a compact camera is more recommendable.

The selection of digital cameras is in any case enormously and for each need surely is the correct model. Before purchase a price comparison in the Internet is always worthwhile itself, in order to query also the customer reviews to the individual models.