Long before you learn the photography, the most important thing is that you must have a camera – any kind. For those of you who are looking for information before deciding to buy a digital camera, this article will explain the types of cameras available on the market and what are the differences.

Pocket camera

Pocket camera is a type of camera the majority (nearly 90%) which is in the hands of consumers. As the name implies, this camera is small and really get into the pocket on your shirt.

Pocket camera can produce good photographs, sometimes remarkable. Pocket camera is also capable of recording video, extra features are very useful and preferred by consumers. However, please note the words in bold above. Usually good and sometimes outstanding photography is the reason why a true fan (and pro photographers) pockets camera eye view – merely as a stepping stone or as a backup.

Several factors that make the limited ability of a pocket camera:

• Shutter lag, defined as the time lag between when you pressed the shutter button and the camera starts recording. Is the biggest reason why pocket cameras are very limited. This time lag may be only half a second, but in this second half there will be an important event-cool-funny-spectacular that it is not recorded into photos.
• Lousy in low light condition, pocket camera has a sensor (a small light-sensitive chip rectangular function that replaces the film) is very small. In general, the smaller sensor of a camera getting his ugly image quality. Small sensors which mean that only recorded a bit of light, color quality is mediocre and weak when dealing with the condition dim. What are the consequences? The first is a photograph tends to blur (not sharp) and second images tend to have a lot of noise (spots around the area of ​​the photo).
• Limited Zoom, has a pocket camera then you are bound to live off the lens of the innate nature to. We cannot change lenses as needed. Pocket camera is factory set to have a lens that can be used for public needs and can do 3 to 4 times magnification.

Super zoom camera has a physical size larger than a pocket camera, and as the name implies has an optical zoom capability as far as 15 times or even up to 20 times. Why is there a camera? Because so many important events happened in the distance, on stage, in the pulpit, in marriage, in the sports field.

Besides super zoom camera has advantages in its ability to see from a distance, it also has another major advantage compared to compact cameras: tiny peephole that fit to your eye (eyepiece viewfinder). Peephole is very useful if you are photographing amid the heat of the day (only compact cameras have an LCD screen behind which is totally useless if you are in the area brightly lit). One again, super zoom cameras also usually have an LCD screen that can be bent – bend so that helps you take pictures from unusual angles.

The drawback? Technically this camera still has a relatively small sensor, so its ability in low light conditions is still limited. For outdoor shooting is still very okay result, but once you have brought into the room you will begin to exhaustion to get sharp photos and good.

In size, super-zoom camera is also quite responsible. There will never fit in the bag, so we have to take him on the shoulder.