Family Selection Guide: Seven Misunderstandings of Digital Camera Purchase

With the arrival of the New Year, the digital camera market in 2004 also ushered in a hot and unusual Spring, people have poured into digital malls around the world to choose a digital camera that suits them, and record the beautiful moments in life. With the rapid development of digital technology, digital photography technology has also made great progress in recent years, and digital video cameras have begun to become an indispensable choice for many families who want to retain motion pictures.

After entering 2003, digital cameras, like digital cameras, began to make strides into the families of ordinary people. The current digital video cameras are still many models, and new products are constantly being introduced. Not only are the functions more and more abundant, the volume is getting smaller and smaller, but the price is also getting closer to the people. Consumer welcome. However, with the development of technology products to life, many ordinary consumers do not have enough professional knowledge to guide consumption, resulting in a situation where many consumers are unable to start to face the dazzling array of digital cameras.

Through some surveys on major website forums, Tiger found that many consumers currently have one or more misunderstandings when choosing digital cameras. These misunderstandings seriously prevent consumers from choosing a digital camera that really suits them. Now let's take a look and see that those misunderstandings are affecting your correct choice!

1. Blindly pursue the camera function of digital cameras

Digital products are becoming more and more advanced nowadays. Digital video cameras already have a photo function. Some products have reached 2 million or even 3 million pixels. They are already comparable to mainstream digital cameras. Many friends buy digital cameras I also like to buy high-resolution products. I want to use one machine for two purposes. It can be used for both photography and video.

One machine dual-use can be said to be a development trend of current digital camera products, but the current technological level is not enough to achieve a perfect two-in-one, many products only meet the requirements in terms of CCD pixel number, different models of machines The quality of the images taken is different, there are good and bad, but no matter how good they are, they can't be compared with real digital cameras, so they can't compete with real digital cameras.

Therefore, it is enough for the average family to use a machine with about 80-100 million pixels for daily home photography. There is no need to spend thousands of dollars in order to pursue the high-pixel camera function. For home digital camcorders, we mainly use it as a digital camcorder. There is no need to have such high requirements for its still image effect. If you have higher requirements for still photos, you should still buy a 3 million pixel The above digital cameras are more suitable.

2. Blindly pursue high-power digital zoom

The digital zoom values ​​of current digital cameras are quite large. 500 and 700 times digital zoom have become commonplace. Manufacturers are also vigorously promoting on product leaflets, making many consumers feel that digital zoom is really "significant"! In fact, digital zoom is actually an electronic magnification of the picture. It enlarges a part of the pixels on the original CCD image sensor to the entire picture. Through the digital zoom, the scene is magnified, but its sharpness is reduced. Therefore, it is not necessary to think too much about whether digital zoom is enough, but should focus on the optical zoom of the machine. Because the optical zoom is to zoom in and out of the scene to be photographed through the movement of the lens of the camera, the larger the magnification of the optical zoom, the farther the scene is photographed, even if the optical zoom is only 10 times, you can shoot clearly about 60-70 meters The scenery outside can basically meet the general shooting needs.

3. Blindly believe in the brand effect

When buying a digital video camera, many people will consider what brand of machine is good, and then they will look for the product of this brand to buy, but they forget to investigate where it is good and how it differs from other brands of the same grade. In the end, it may end up in a "famous brand is not practical" situation, for example, there are rumors on the market that "you have money to buy Sony, not money to buy Panasonic." In fact, the brand credibility of digital video cameras is very important, but for ordinary consumers, you should fully understand the products of various manufacturers before buying, read more information, go to the field to try the machine, so that you know yourself and each other. "Applicable is the best"!

At present, there are many digital camera manufacturers in the domestic market. The quality of Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Canon, JVC, Sharp and other products are quite good, and their functions have their own advantages. Each manufacturer's products have their own characteristics. Choosing the right model according to your needs can bring endless fun for home, travel, work, etc., and blindly pursuing the brand effect is not practical. A good branding does not mean that all its models are good. You said yes? :)

4. Blindly buy cheap second-hand digital cameras

On the forum, I can always see whether my friends are buying and selling second-hand digital cameras. I do n’t mean it ’s not good. I think if this kind of communication can allow us to upgrade our machines, many of the machines sold by friends are still quite good. Yes, but some of the machines sold by some friends are cheap, but the model is very old. Everyone knows that the digital camera is a product with a very rapid technological update. The application of many new technologies can have a huge impact on image quality. Even the second-hand goods a year ago may have fallen behind in technology and the picture The effect is no longer comparable to new products, so although it is cheap, but the cost performance is not very high. The quality of some second-hand machines is also worrying, and the after-sales service is impossible to talk about.

Therefore, Tiger recommends that if you are not an expert, try not to buy second-hand digital cameras, because it may bring you endless troubles; if you ca n’t resist the temptation of low prices, and you are just a newbie, Then be sure to bring a friend who is proficient in digital video cameras and let him give you a good advice! If you need help from a tiger, you can call me: ******, my charging standard is ... Ha ha, kidding :) In short, you must be cautious when buying used digital cameras!

5. Blindly pursue technical parameters

Some friends often argue about the parameters of some digital cameras on the forum. In fact, some parameters are very critical for consumers, such as the size of the CCD, the optical zoom factor, and so on. However, some parameters are not very meaningful to ordinary consumers, such as drum size, audio recording Hertz value, etc.

As a family digital camera enthusiast, you must remember that these technical parameters are just a reference when purchasing, and you must not spend too much energy to pursue. Because the difference between the performance parameters of general household digital cameras is not large, these small technical differences are negligible in the final work, the impact on the image cannot be distinguished by the naked eye, so you are not a hot eye Camera expert, then do n’t be “thinking” about certain parameters, and argue endlessly :)

6. Blindly pursue multi-functional integration

With the vigorous development of the digital video camera market, new products are emerging one after another, and the additional functions of digital video cameras are becoming more and more abundant. It can be said that the current digital video cameras have far exceeded the scope of purely for video recording. Many additional entertainment functions make Our eyes are bright. However, as everyone knows, these additional functions also take up a lot of your money!

The purpose of buying a camera is to take a camera, so we should spend money on improving the image quality, not on some impractical functions. The quality of the camera is the most important issue we should pay attention to when buying. . I hope that when you choose a digital video camera, you do n’t have to overestimate these "fashionable" additional functions, but you should focus on the "home work" of the digital video camera-the camera function!

7. Blindly pursue the night vision function

Many machines now claim to have night vision, so what is night vision? As the name suggests, the so-called night vision function means that the digital video camera can take images that can be seen by the naked eye even when the light is very dim or even no light at all. At first glance, this function sounds very useful, because we often encounter low light when shooting. If the "night vision" function is really so magical, then it is much more convenient for us to shoot night scenes and other scenes.

At present, the digital cameras produced by major manufacturers on the market all have "night vision" functions, such as Sony's "infrared night camera" and "super infrared night camera", Panasonic's "color night vision function" and JVC's "color digital night" "Eye", etc., many users are very interested in the "night vision" function before buying, but after buying it, they find that it is actually useless. The images captured by this function are either monochrome or discontinuous, and the picture is seriously dragged. Tail, it looks like a word-tired! Therefore, the "night vision function" of the digital video camera should only be used under certain shooting conditions. The picture effect of the shooting is poor. When the light is insufficient, the light should be filled as much as possible, rather than relying too much on "night vision" Features.

The vast majority of current buyers buy digital cameras for travel or to take some videos of family daily life. I believe that not many people will often use these "night vision" functions, so when you buy digital cameras, you can use The "night vision" function of each brand is regarded as a small additional function. It is not necessary to consider its advantages and disadvantages too much. More attention should be paid to the selection of important functions such as CCD, lens, zoom, and anti-shake. Above.

Okay, I talked about the seven misunderstandings of buying digital cameras. I hope to help friends buy digital cameras to a little help. I sincerely hope you can choose a digital camera that suits you and use it to record the license. There are so many things about life that will make you feel fun when watching in the future!