Choosing Your Digital Camera

When choosing a digital camera, you need to decide what type of photographs you want to take with it. This article will assist in choosing a camera to meet your quality requirements.

Cameras are generally rated by "Pixels", this term describes the tiniest dot on a monitor that a video card can set to an individual colour. Monitors when set to high resolutions, have small pixels which are more detailed. At lower resolutions they appear larger and more visible. This give the display the appearance of lacking in detail.

For a good quality appearance when printed a photo needs to be 300 DPI (Dots per Inch). You can work out the number of mega pixels you need in a camera for the appropriate size of photograph.

For example supposing we wanted to print a photo that is 4