3 Basic features

Digital cameras are launched and updated at an amazing rate, and trying to give advice about specific models in a book such as this would be asking for trouble. But there are general trends, features and guidelines that can be highlighted, and which provide more than enough information to allow you to choose the best camera from the models available at any given time.

As when buying a film camera – or, for that matter, any other technological item (be it a washing machine or a car) – the first thing to do is to decide which features are required. In the case of a digital camera, the challenge is to know the importance of the features offered, because only then can the appropriate requirements be deduced.

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