Compact Digital Camera

Compact Digital Camera

Executive Summary by Michael Poh Wai Wong

Can you imagine holding your camera with your hand right now? Now, take a look at the cameras in the market, compact digital camera (also known as point and shoot camera) is one of the cheapest camera that has a combination of camera and camcorder together. Point and shoot cameras nowadays are mostly equipped with multiple face detection feature. Some point and shoot cameras nowadays are build to be water resistance.

So, now you can take some underwater pictures (following the camera depth guidelines of course) knowing that your camera is completely safe. In the market now, there are cameras that can edit your picture immediately, just that their editing software is still weak compare to a dedicated picture editing software.

Now, understanding that you can be the future user of a DSLR camera, camera manufacturers also build some control you can play with for your point and shoot camera. Because as you move forward with digital photography, surely you will want more features from your camera. Unless you have really gone through intensive research, you are most likely to go for the DSLR camera that is the same brand as your current camera.

How Compact Digital Camera Works

Most compact digital camera use charge-coupled device (CCD) as photosensor. When light strikes the sensor, it will record the image electronically and transfer it for organization. After that, it will convert the image into binary digital data and stored in memory.

You can see that cameras nowadays come with optical zoom and digital zoom. Optical zoom is more important because it actually zooms into your subject while digital zoom only enlarges your picture. Cameras today also come with LCD screen for you to preview the picture you took. Don't misunderstand that the digital camera is compact and the LCD screen will be small. If you have a digital camera back in the early days, you should remember that the storage device was built into the camera. Luckily, as the technology evolves, you can now enjoy portable memory storage.

You can now store your pictures into memory devices like SD cards or smart media cards. Furthermore, memory device nowadays come in different sizes. The storage amount of the memory device depends on the quality of your picture and how frequent you take photograph.

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