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Yank Elliott, MBA

Get the best digital camera you can afford now!

This is a Home Based Business website and what we talk about helps Home Based Entrepreneurs. But a digital camera should be in everybody's possession.

Why? You can take pictures for almost no cost and effortlessly e-mail them to friends and family. If you are a charitable organization you can send pictures to your members and supporters showing things you are doing.

You can easily upload images to your website whether business or personal. You can make personalized postcards or flyers for business or private use. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

A major business use is the ability to keep up-to-date pictures of you and your products on your website. This is a powerful way to build trust with your customers.

Your camera will pay for itself quickly, the more you use it the faster it pays back. In my case there are two scenarios. The first was when I had a lot of expensive 35mm SLR equipment. My cameras went everywhere and I made thousands of slides. The problem is there was never enough time to sort through and use what I had.

There are right now about 3000 slides in a box! That's 125 rolls of 24 exposure film. Film and developing cost at least $8, so that's about $1,000, a lot more than I paid for my digital camera.

Now, consider the second situation. All my cameras were destroyed in Hurricane Floyd. I have several businesses that require photos, so I decided to try the throw away cameras and have them developed and put on the web. Because I was only interested in the web pictures this was truly a waste. Depending on how cheap the cameras were it cost about $15 for 27 exposures. Using the same 3000 photos as in the first example, you end up with $1,667!

You may say, “But how do I get a print to hold in my hand?” That's easy and you don't have to pay for pictures you don't need. Wal-Mart will make one for $0.19 if you pick it up at your local store. Just send it from your computer and pick it up at your convenience. They'll ship it to you for a little more, if you want.

You can search the web, but Wal-mart was the cheapest place I found. You can also buy photo paper and print them yourself, put that's expensive and takes a lot of time.

Another plus is your ability to immediately view your picture. If you don't like it, shoot another. And you don't have to carry a lot of gear. When I had my 35mm. system there were three or four lenses and two bags full of filters and such. With digital you do all the fancy stuff with a photo editing program usually furnished with your camera.

Once you see the need you will want to know what to buy.

My advice is to first determine how much you can afford. There are hundreds of cameras from under $50 to the thousands of dollars. You can get one that will do about everything you want for $400 to $600, maybe less if you don't want as many things as I did.

With a price in mind, you can go to the web and see what's in your range. Compare prices at these sites: Price Watch , Price Scan or CNET.com . Be sure to check the shipping charges; they can really jack up the price. I paid more for my camera at one on-line retailer but came out about $30 cheaper than anywhere else because there was no shipping charge at all on my item.

Next you will want to list features important to you. You may not find a camera in your range with all of them but you can get most. Consider the power of the optical zoom, whether you can go to a manual mode for special effects, flash and redeye reduction, self timer and many others.

For more information than you believe possible see these excellent reviews. Here are all the features and benefits of just about all digital cameras in existence. Good luck!

Most cameras have accessories sold separately. See if you want any and if they fit in your budget. At the same time try to find out about special equipment they don't tell you about. In my case there was the battery charger, extra batteries and an AC adapter. These things can add $100 or so to the base cost.

Pay attention to the memory media. That could be a floppy disc, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, or one of many other ways to record. New technology comes out every day so you may want to go with whatever seems to be the preferred method at the time of your purchase.

Another choice you will have to make is the power source. Some camera makers have their own proprietary power. You need to make sure you can easily find replacements. Don't go for anything that depends on alkaline batteries; rechargeable batteries of some kind are a must because they are much less expensive over the long run and you can always recharge them.

Consider how you will transfer pictures to your computer. The floppy disc is probably easiest but speed and storage capacity usually rule this out in favor of Compact Flash or a Memory Stick. Besides, most new computers no longer offer floppies!

Be sure the camera comes with download software and a direct USB cable. A few of the cameras I looked at had to have special devices for downloading. These were sold separately and added to the cost.

Now here's something really important!

Be sure your computer system has all the memory and speed requirements for both the camera and its bundled software. Are the camera and software compatible with your operating system? This is particularly important with MS XP. A lot of software will not work on XP, even some recent developments.

Once you have your camera, how hard is it to use? Not at all for most cameras; put the batteries in, insert a memory device, set it on “Auto” and shoot.

To learn more than you ever thought you wanted to know about digital photography go to Short Courses .

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© Yank Elliott. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Yank is a home-based entrepreneur and freelance business writer in Hurricane Alley, North Carolina, USA. His Website is www.furriwhalesworld.com . Contact Yank at globalbiz@furriwhalesworld.com .

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