If you are planning to buy a digital camera then this is the right time as this is the festival season and you can get some good offers. Ok that was money wise, on the technical part what you should look in a camera are as follows:
Brand and color reproduction: I have seen that every brand of camera has its own characteristic color reproduction. Nikon and Sony has a good natural color reproduction while that of fujitsu is faded type and not at all lively. In Kodak colors are not natural looking and image have color noise. Pentax produces good image tones. Canon produces vibrant colors and lively but not so natural looking. Casio quality is somewhat like that of fujitsu but much better. What you should do that before selecting the brand; you should look at sample photographs and decide which camera is for you.
Zoom: Never ever go for a camera that shows huge digital zoom capability. It’s almost useless. What’s important is Optical zoom. Higher the optical zoom, better is the camera.
MegaPixel: Anything above 3.2MP CCD (cmos/vga is not good) is good for home use if the camera has a good optical zoom capability and uses good quality lens.
Battery: This is very important. Always buy a digital camera which runs on two AAA size pencil battery and can also run on CRV3. Why? A CRV3 battery is a lithium ion battery which is available at quite low cost and offer excellent backup compared to Ni-MH batteries. But as you all know, rechargeable batteries can go down anytime (especially in winter) and if you are outside and cannot recharge the battery then you can just go to any shop and buy two alkaline batteries and continue with your photography work. At least you don’t get struck. In those cameras which have mobile phone type rechargeable batteries, users are left with no option to go home and wait for hours till the battery get charged.
