What are the minium specs on a digital camera that would want when looking to purchase one today?

Question

Giving todays technology what is the minium specs an average digital camers should have if purchased today?

Answer 1

Having a Nikon Coolpix 995, I would say that the most important spec would be how quickly the camera takes a picture after pushing the button. Earlier cameras like mine have a delay that prevents me from grabbing pictures the way I did with a film camera. I get pictures of the ground from turning away with the camera. Current ones are supposed to be able to capture the image quickly.

Answer 2

Even though I personally own this camera, I would still like to highly recommend the purchase of a Nikon Coolpix L10 for the following reasons:

1. Besides taking well-exposed hi-quality 5 megapixel pictures, it uses a standard set of rechargeable double AA batteries which last a very long time;
2. Has a 3x optical zoom;
3. The flash setting for "red-eye" correction is on the navigator wheel and not within a submenu;
4. It's very small and light;
5. Uses inexpensive SD memory cards;
6. The digital video feature takes wonderful "sound" videos which are noise free. It records the piano very well with it's built-in microphone;
7. It comes with a USB 2.0 transfer cable which you connect to your USB computer port;
8. And the price is a mere $120 [sold at Samy's Camera - www.samys.com, and Staples.com.]

Good luck!

Answer 3

Some of the best cameras are actually only 3 or 4 mega pixel. The reason for this is because mega pixel really is a techo buzz word that marketing like to throw around to impress everyone. You are better off with a 3 or 4 megapixel camera with a good lens over a 10 mega pixel camera with no zoom and a dodgy lens. I would recommend a 5 mega pixel camera and a good quality lens.

Answer 4

The minium specs on a good average didital camera if you wanted to buy one would be no less then 5 mega pixle, 512 memery, around 10X zoom, LCD screed.

If you are seriously looking for a good camera that will not kill your bank account...

I suggest looking at buying a Olympus SP-510 or sp-550

it features the following:

- 7.1 mega pixle
- 2.5" lcd screen and a view finder
- 10X optical zoom, total zoom of 50X using optical and digital
- image stabalizer
- 9 user settings on thumb wheel, approxmently 28 pre-set photo settings
- XD card slot,
- 1 gig card will get you just over 500 photos on high quality setting, which means you will have a photo around the size of 1.4mb and a size of 3200 x 2400 pixels.

to much to list so go to olympus website for more info...

camera cost under 300 and is high quality, but not a SLR... but close to it with all the features, setings and maual settings you can pick from.

Answer 5

Well my general rule of thumb for resolution is as many megapixels as you can afford, and always shoot at the max resolution, and turn off the digital zoom (memory is cheap and reusable and you can always reduce it's size later) but the big thing here is having the ability to crop, crop, crop!!!, also if you take a pic and it's really superior you will kick yourself in the butt if you can't make an 8X10, or larger if desired. As for my biggest concern it's shutter lag and color accuracy. I'm pretty much a DSLR person, but as for point and shoot I almost always have my Canon Powershot SD900 on my side (before that it was my SD-550), it's easy to use great color accuracy, quick response, small, light, and portable. And has a great selection of special features and ISO equivelant settings, also a neat feature is it ability to recognize a face and focus to it. And a big plus to this camera is it has both an optical viewfinder and LCD screen.

Remember your best camera is the one you have on you when that once in a lifetime shot arises.

Answer 6

2-3 megapixels should do fine. Some people may say more... However, most people do not even know how to adjust this on their camera. Just remember, the higher the resolution the larger the pic file is and the less pictures you can fit on your card.