Digital Camera Specifications

Digital cameras have taken 90% of the consumer market leaving film far behind. People love taking picture with no limitations of quantity, yet when it comes to viewing the pictures the good old paper is still the most appriciated method by far. Viewing pictures in an album makes the experience more enjoyable and special.

Some of the main specs one must examine are:

SLR (Single Lens Reflex Viewfinder)

Most present day consumer cameras, shy away from this feature. They come equiped with a LCD screen instead. The view finder, however, is a more accurate method to view the exact frame the camera shoots. The sun may obscure the view in the LCD, but not in the SLR. Nevertheless, major manufactures have realized consumer tandency to use only the LCD and that is the reason for the SLR cameras decrease number in the market.

Interpolation

Method that cameras use to fill in color holes in a picture's pixels. This feature may improve resolution, but the contrust and sharpnes of the picture would be compremized. This is due to the action cameras take once incountering color holes (blending those holes with estimate colors). Cameras that are low in resolution but high in interpolation do not provide sharp bright pictures.

Compression

This feature determins how the picture is stored digitally. There are different formats that are made by different companies. There are compresion methods such as gif are better in storing 2 dimention images while jpg is better with 3 and carries more depth posibilities. Tiff is as good as jpg and does not lose it resolution with time.

There is much more to compression and other specs. Exploring ones needs is essential in making a wise desission.