Entry level 'easy to use' Cameras

For everyday photography and occasional holiday snaps a camera in the below £150.00 category will be more than enough for your needs. A minimum of 2 or 3 megapixel quality is fine as this will allow excellent reproduction of the images on a computer screen and even on your tv set if your camera is fitted with a tv out connection

These 3 megapixel cameras will produce lovely prints when developed at the standard 6 x 4 size

Recomended cameras--Fuji A120, A330, Olympus C310, C370, Kodak CX7300, CX7330 etc

Moving up a bit to 4 megapixel

Just staying inside the £200.00 bracket there are now a wide variety of 4 megapixel cameras which will allow larger print sizes will retaining the same quality as a film camera

Sizes can go upto 8 x 11, and with a slight drop in quality A4 size prints can be reproduced

These cameras will also have a wide variety of fetures allowing for more control over your pictures, such as, night modes, shutter speed control, and more enhanced picture editing capabilities

The 3 & 4 megapixel range is the "hot" choice at the moment and includes the most variety of cameras available

4 megapixels and beyond

Now larger 5,6 megapixel and beyond cameras are becoming more affordable. These offer an ever increasing control over photographs and much larger film quality sizes of 8 x 11 and even larger can be reproduced

These are at the more expensive end of the digital camera market, £300 and beyond and make a great solution for the more adventurous photographer who is looking to take their digital photography a bit more seriously

Are Pixels The most Important Feature ?

Although Pixel count is Important on Digital Cameras it really only relates to the size of the image that can be produced. Equally as Important are the Quality of the Lens and the Processor inside the camera.

Effective and recorded megapixels ?

Now if things arent complicated enough we have digital cameras that use a highly sophisticated form of interplotation to produce even greater print sizes than they should be capable of

As we Invest in a lot of Fuji Digital Cameras i will try an explain there system in more detail

Some fuji cameras i.e. A310, F810, F410, F401, F610 Have an ability to double the total number of pixels in a photograph

I will focus on the Fuji F410: This camera is rated as a true 3 megapixel camera but can take photographs in 6 megapixel resolution which will allow the taken image to be blown up to huge sizes far beyond that of a normal 3 megapixel camera when printed out, there maybe a slight loss in sharpness but this is rarely visible to the naked eye.

This system is a Highly Sophisticated form of Interpolation where the cameras Processor will calculate the Colour of the space between each pixel on the cameras sensor and produce an Image with a much larger Pixel Count.

What should i do with my photos?

Now having taken a photograph with a digital what can you do with it.
This is where the digital camera leaves the older film type trailing behind.
For instance with a digital camera your pictures can be:

Digital zoom vs Optical zoom

Not entirely megapixel related but worth a mention is a digital cameras zoom capability.
As far as the difference between the two types of zoom goes the optical zoom is far superior.
A digital zoom only magnifys the image on the display which any computer can do using basic image editing software.
An optical zoom will bring the subject you are photographing closer without any loss of quality as the cameras lens is magnifying the image in realtime as it sees it not through any software manipulation