Cameras & Equipment
Sete France, the train station at sunrise
Even a simple snapshot from your phone can bring back memories of places and times. Better to take the picture now than wait for a better one later. Time is rather sequential, and it is really hard to go back and capture an earlier moment.
So here is our train to the west, and it will be time to go in about 90 seconds….
Point One: Take the picture –
Pocket Cameras: Small, Medium, and Large Prices
Less than $100, Less Than $250 and More Than $250
What does money buy?
$50 to $100
- 1.0-megapixel CCD creates prints up to 4 by 6 inches to over 7.2 megapixels for prints up to 14 x 19 inch prints
- Face Detection; Smart Zoom feature
- 4x optical zoom, 2x digital zoom lens with autofocus
- Memory card to hold the images
- Connects to computer via USB port
- Includes auto flash with red-eye reduction
- Macro function for shooting a closeup of the inside of a flower
- AA batteries included
$100 to $250
This is where the big selection is for point and shoot cameras. You can get virtually every know feature in this group,just not all in one camera.
Memory sizes to 12 mp.
Above $250
This is the end of the market where you do not have to make trade offs — lots of memory, big number telephoto, image stabilization, lots of memory, and more features that you will ever use. Plus an instruction manual that is larger than the camera.
