Choosing a Digital Point and Shoot Camera – What matters Most!

A camera technician explains

This is not the usual camera test report, which ends up with a list of camera recommendations to buy. Rather, I would like to give you camera advice and the tools you need to choose your next digital camera today and in five years from now. Let’s face it, there are hundreds of different cameras to choose from and the manufacturers release new models every month. To make matters worse, most retailers stock different models, which makes price comparison almost impossible. 
When it comes to choosing a new digital camera, you want to have knowledge on this subject, which can be applied as a foundation, before you start choosing brands and models.

extendable lens                          shook and watter proof             inbuilt lens

Choose the type of camera first!
It happens all the time – I see it almost every day. People come and see me with faulty point and shoot Digital Cameras, which have self induced faults. The good news is, that most of these expensive problems could have been avoided, when you had chosen the right camera type, which fits your lifestyle, and had taken the right precautions of course. The bad news is, these faults are not covered under warranty and are often uneconomical to repair!

What is a self induced fault? Sand -, liquid- and shock damage

• Sand damage can easily happen at the beach without realising it straight away. A couple of sand grains in the right spot can malfunction an extendable lens mechanism.
• The most common liquid damaged cameras we have seen are affected by rainwater, beach and swimming pool and believe it or not, drink bottles stored in the camera bag.
• Shock damage is a tricky subject, in particular when the camera is handled by multiple users.  Often it is not realised, as there are hardly any signs of damage on the outside housing of the camera, but the damage is done inside.

What is an uneconomical repair?
The most common symptoms, or let us say parts, which brake, are LCD displays and extendable lenses. LCD’s are made of glass and exposed often without any protection. Lenses are in most cases none serviceable items and need to be replaced as a whole unit, which is extremely expensive. Spare part prices can make up to 50% and more of the price you payed, when the camera was new! Given the price decline and the improved performance of new cameras, you can work out by yourself, were you want to spend your money.
What to look out for when choosing your new camera?
To get the most out of your investment, choose the type which suits your lifestyle best. Let’s put the earlier paragraph about self induced faults into consideration and assume we distinguish between 3 types of point and shoot cameras. Cameras with…

• extendable lenses
• inbuilt lenses
• water and shockproof

If you have a personal preference for a camera with an extendable lens, you must take special care of it, to avoid any damage to the lens.
In case you have kids and multiple users, who might be a little rough with the handling of the camera, the best return on the investment is given with a water and shockproof camera. Personally I use a camera with an inbuilt lens, which hasn’t given me any problems whatsoever.
Accessories
Do you want to upgrade your camera with a newer model of the same brand and hoping to use your old accessories like battery or memory card? In most cases you can’t. Different physical shapes and electrical specifications make it impossible. 
Features
Now, we are talking purchase price. More megapixels and optical zoom is not all! Often specifications are pushed to the limit and performance is sacrificed. Let me explain: to take a good shot with a high megapixel and let’s say 10x optical zoom camera without tripod requires a lot computer power. Often it can take a few seconds of shutter lag and the results are still not satisfying. What I am saying is, to have a good performance/specification camera you have to pay the price and go for a semi-professional or Dslr camera. However, the most shots indoors are taken in wide-angle lens setting and outdoors you use the same, most cameras handle these shots without any issues.
The best insurance from disappointments is to test the camera by yourself under different light conditions and zoom settings.
Test reports
Make sure, the cameras tested are readily available and the test topics make sense and are relevant for you. See it as a guideline only.
What is a good brand?
This is hard to say from a repairer’s point of view, we only see the faulty ones. When looking underneath the brand badge and housing, it is almost impossible to see if a ‘brand name’ stands out with better workmanship. All  I can see is, that mechanical components seemed to be done more out of plastics and the way they have been put together looks and feels cheaper as it used to. All the improvements, which lead to better specifications, go into more powerful electronics and computer chips.  Therefore manufacturer costs can be reduced to a minimum. Today, it is not as expensive as it used to be to manufacture a relative good new camera or release new models, which explains the ever increasing flood of new cameras.
What the reliability of the different brands concerns, I couldn’t recommend one or the other, as long as you compare cameras in the same price bracket. A lot of spare parts have Chinese writing on the boxes, which makes me wonder, where there are coming from and where the cameras are manufactured.
Summary
Here you go – this is an opinion and camera advice from a repairer. I hope, it was helpful and has shed some light on this almost overwhelming task to purchase a new camera. There are certainly a few points above, which should be elaborated on. To get the full picture, visit me on my blog for a few more pieces of the puzzle.  At the end of the day you want to educate yourself to be able to apply more common sense to make better decisions.
It is not always the cheapest price what matters, you want to have the right type of camera and value for your money.

About the Author

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Drama Schools $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Drama School, International Drama and Theatre Education Association, School of Theatre and Cinema, Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Atelier-Théâtre Burkinabè, Silvio D’amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg. Excerpt: A drama school is a higher education college which specialises in the vocational teaching of drama (i.e. acting, musical theatre and technical theatre). Students at such a college are normally awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) or a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at the end of their studies. Entry to drama school is usually through an audition. Some schools make this a two-stage process. Places on an acting course are limited (usually well below 100) so those who fare best at the audition are selected. Most academies state that applicants must be over 18 years of age. Auditions usually involve the performance of monologues and group workshops, and may also include a singing activity. This varies from academy to academy. If this is the case for an acting degree, the school looks more at how an applicant can put character into the song rather than how well they can sing. For a musical theatre degree, the emphasis is on showing one’s talent as a singer. Most colleges offer recall auditions, often in several stages, in which students being considered for entry onto a course are brought back to audition again, demonstrating their talents further. The courses offered by drama schools are heavily based on practical work, after all, their aim is to train students as professional actors for stage and camera work. Students are required to be enthusiastic and motivated in order to meet the demands offered by the course. At the end of the final year (usually the third) most drama scho… More:

Every Frame a Rembrandt: Art and Practice of Cinematography $54.95 Audience: Filmmakers (directors, cinematographers, camera crew), cinematography courses.

Film Studies: An Introduction $29.5 Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the significance of montage, which in turn reveals the importance of a director’s use of camera movement. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative. Film Studies works with any screening list and can be used within courses on film history, film theory, or popular culture. Straightforward explanations of core critical concepts, practical advice, and suggested assignments on particular technical, visual, and aesthetic aspects further anchor the reader’s understanding of the formal language and anatomy of film.

Film Studies: An Introduction $29.5 Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the significance of montage, which in turn reveals the importance of a director’s use of camera movement. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative. Film Studies works with any screening list and can be used within courses on film history, film theory, or popular culture. Straightforward explanations of core critical concepts, practical advice, and suggested assignments on particular technical, visual, and aesthetic aspects further anchor the reader’s understanding of the formal language and anatomy of film.

Film Studies: An Introduction $23.99 Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His description of mise-en-scene helps readers grasp the significance of montage, which in turn reveals the importance of a director’s use of camera movement. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative. Film Studies works with any screening list and can be used within courses on film history, film theory, or popular culture. Straightforward explanations of core critical concepts, practical advice, and suggested assignments on particular technical, visual, and aesthetic aspects further anchor the reader’s understanding of the formal language and anatomy of film.

Geography and Technology $99 This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. It recognizes the importance of technologies in the production of geographical knowledge. The original chapters presented here examine technologies that have affected geography as a discipline. Among the technologies discussed are cartography, the camera, aerial photography, computers, and other computer-related tools. The contributors address the impact of such technologies on geography and society, disciplinary inquiries into the social/technological interfaces, high-tech as well low-tech societies, and applications of technologies to the public and private sectors. Geography and Technology can be used as a textbook in geography courses and seminars investigating specific technologies and the impacts of technologies on society and policy. It will also be useful for those in the humanities, social, policy and engineering sciences, planning and development fields where technology questions are becoming of increased importance. Geography clearly has much to learn from other disciplines and fields about geography/technology linkages; others can likewise learn much from us.

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Golf GPS i – The Open 2009 $0 4+~~The David Morris Corporation Ltd.~~DMC~~http://itunes.apple.com/app/golf-gps-i-the-open-2009/id322662642?uo=5~~The David Morris Corporation Ltd.~~1.0.0~~1825000~~7323540~~http://www.golfgpsi.com~~http://www.golfgpsi.com/support

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Golf’s Book of Firsts $34.91 New – This follow-up to “Baseball’s Book of Firsts” turns the camera on the game of golf with more than 200 photographs–in full-color and black-and-white–that illustrate famous faces, unforgettable shots, history-making moments, and legendary courses.

Golf’s Book of Firsts $5.09 Used – This follow-up to “Baseball’s Book of Firsts” turns the camera on the game of golf with more than 200 photographs–in full-color and black-and-white–that illustrate famous faces, unforgettable shots, history-making moments, and legendary courses.

Golf’s Book of Firsts $26.68 New – This follow-up to “Baseball’s Book of Firsts” turns the camera on the game of golf with more than 200 photographs–in full-color and black-and-white–that illustrate famous faces, unforgettable shots, history-making moments, and legendary courses.

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Hands-On Digital Photography: A Step-By-Step Course in Camera Controls, Software Techniques, and Successful Imaging $2.16 Used – George Schaub has taught digital photography to hundreds of people in workshops and courses across the country. All of his students have had one thing in common: They wanted to get the best images from their digital cameras. Now, in “Hands-On Digital Photography,” Schaub presents everything he teaches and everything he has learned in his fifteen years of teaching. Image processing software is great…but Schaub’s practical, project-based approach focuses on the camera and getting the best

Hands-On Digital Photography: A Step-By-Step Course in Camera Controls, Software Techniques, and Successful Imaging $7.4 New – George Schaub has taught digital photography to hundreds of people in workshops and courses across the country. All of his students have had one thing in common: They wanted to get the best images from their digital cameras. Now, in “Hands-On Digital Photography,” Schaub presents everything he teaches and everything he has learned in his fifteen years of teaching. Image processing software is great…but Schaub’s practical, project-based approach focuses on the camera and getting the best

Hands-On Digital Photography: A Step-By-Step Course in Camera Controls, Software Techniques, and Successful Imaging $4.9 New – George Schaub has taught digital photography to hundreds of people in workshops and courses across the country. All of his students have had one thing in common: They wanted to get the best images from their digital cameras. Now, in “Hands-On Digital Photography,” Schaub presents everything he teaches and everything he has learned in his fifteen years of teaching. Image processing software is great…but Schaub’s practical, project-based approach focuses on the camera and getting the best

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Kinect Sensor Holiday Bundle $149.98 Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways – no controller required. Easy to use and instantly fun, Kinect gets everyone off the couch moving, laughing and cheering. See a ball? Kickit. Control an HD movie with a wave of the hand. Want to join a friend in the fun? Simply jump in. With Kinect technology evaporates, letting the natural magic in all of us shine. And the best part is Kinect works with every Xbox 360 right out of the box. -Features: -Array of 4 microphones supporting single speaker voice recognition -Depth Camera 640×480 Pixel Resolution @30FPS -Color VGA Motion Camera 640×480 pixel resolution @30FPS -Fully compatible with all Xbox 360 models -Revolutionary technology that includes body recognition-Float in outer space. Experience the thrill of roaring rapids. Tackle mountaintop obstacle courses. And dive into the deep to explore a leaky underwater observatory — all from your living room. With Kinect Adventures, you are the controller as you jump, dodge and kick your way through exciting adventures set in a variety of exotic locations. Twisted Pixel Games, creators of The Maw, Splosion Man and Comic Jumper, proudly present The Gunstringer! This is an all-new type of Kinect game where you’ll puppeteer a fiery gun-toting marionette through his adventures. The Gunstringer combines solo platforming and shooting mechanics into unique, competitive action with a full suite of collectables, unlockables, abilities, rewards and more. Chop and strike to deliciously slash and splatter fruit like a true ninja warrior with this Kinect-enabled version of Fruit Ninja. But be careful of the bombs, which are explosive to the touch and will put a swift end to your juicy adventure!

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Nintendo Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo DS Game Only) $32.99 Super Mario 64 DS Featuring some of the finest 3-D graphics and game play ever developed for a video game, Super Mario 64 set a new standard for interactive entertainment when it was launched with the Nintendo 64. Super Mario 64’s vast worlds teem with daunting obstacle courses, hidden items, puzzles and more than 30 enemies! Features: 15 magical worlds to search for 120 Power Stars. Mario has more than a dozen moves, including running, jumping, swimming, stomping and punching, and even performing a backward somersault! Super Mario 64 features unmatched camera control that make adventuring in its 3-D world a snap even for newcomers. Mario runs freely in a grassy meadow, tiptoes through a gloomy dungeon, climbs to the top of a snow-covered mountain, hot-foots it over lava lakes and swims in the castle moat. He can explore an ancient pyramid and even race Koopas for fabulous prizes. And he must fight his archnemesis Bowser, King of the Koopas, not once, but three times! ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Platform Support: Nintendo DS

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Photography: A Critical Introduction $14 Used – This is the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further education, higher education and introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover key debates and theorists; the documentary role of the camera; the popular and personal, including the family album; advertising and commodity cult

Photography: A Critical Introduction $13.1 Used – This is the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further education, higher education and introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover key debates and theorists; the documentary role of the camera; the popular and personal, including the family album; advertising and commodity cult

Photojournalism: The Visual Approach $0.65 Used – This introduction to the basic principles of photojournalism focuses on the techniques of camera and film use and the content and aesthetics of the single picture. It is for use on courses in photography, journalism and public relations.

Photojournalism: The Visual Approach $9.4 Used – This introduction to the basic principles of photojournalism focuses on the techniques of camera and film use and the content and aesthetics of the single picture. It is for use on courses in photography, journalism and public relations.

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Picture Composition $62.95 Audience: Camera operators, trainee camera operators, ENG technicians, technical operators, programme makers, producers, directors, corporate video camera operators. College libraries, lecturers/trainers and students on film/video/television production HE courses.

Picture Composition $30.8 New – Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of visual techniques that will clearly communicate the idea to an audience. Composition is the bedrock of the operator’s craft, yet is seldom taught in training courses in the belief that it is an intuitive, personal skill. Peter Ward shows how composition can be learned, to enhance the quality of your work. Based on the author’s own practical experience, the book deals with the m

Picture Composition $51.35 Used – Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of visual techniques that will clearly communicate the idea to an audience. Composition is the bedrock of the operator’s craft, yet is seldom taught in training courses in the belief that it is an intuitive, personal skill. Peter Ward shows how composition can be learned, to enhance the quality of your work. Based on the author’s own practical experience, the book deals with the

Picture Composition $28.06 Used – Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of visual techniques that will clearly communicate the idea to an audience. Composition is the bedrock of the operator’s craft, yet is seldom taught in training courses in the belief that it is an intuitive, personal skill. Peter Ward shows how composition can be learned, to enhance the quality of your work. Based on the author’s own practical experience, the book deals with the

Picture Composition $47.47 New – Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of visual techniques that will clearly communicate the idea to an audience. Composition is the bedrock of the operator’s craft, yet is seldom taught in training courses in the belief that it is an intuitive, personal skill. Peter Ward shows how composition can be learned, to enhance the quality of your work. Based on the author’s own practical experience, the book deals with the m

Project Gotham Racing 4 $19.99 Project Gotham Racing makes its second appearance on Xbox 360 with several key additions, from a dynamically changing weather system to the option of racing motorcycles alongside the iconic sports cars. The predecessor’s five cities have been updated with new visual effects and enhancements, including red-and-white “rumble strips” to more easily identify approaching turns, and drivers can now tear up the streets in four international locales: Macau, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Quebec. A tenth venue, the fictitious Michelin Test Track, is patterned after traditional NASCAR courses for special invitational events in the single-player career mode. The kudos system of earning points for flashy moves returns, but now players will receive star ratings for combos and computer AI drivers will more aggressively compete for kudos. The career mode is more fleshed out and personalized compared to previous versions, with loyal fans following your driver to each event, wearing clothing with your logo or waving your home country’s flag, and with a television-style atmosphere complete with camera crews and running commentary. The licensed vehicle list has expanded to 120 models, including such classics as a Corvette Sting Ray, a Maserati 250F, a Toyota Supra Turbo, and a DeLorean DMC-12. In addition to the career mode (which spans 200 races and includes new garages for storing vehicles), users can participate in 70 arcade-style events or compete in eight-player online races via Xbox Live. New event types include “survivor” and “superstar,” with the latter testing a player’s skill in completing tricks within time limits. A new “Team Play” online mode has four friends creating a racing team and working together to take out other top-ranked teams. The Gotham TV option introduced in PGR 3 also returns with an “on demand” feature that not only lets users share photos and streaming video, but also search for specific footage or players by keyword. ~ Scott Alan Marriott,…

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Scripted artificially intelligent basic online tactical simulation. $108 For many years introductory Computer Science courses have followed the same teaching paradigms. As these paradigms are run on simple console windows there is an area for an interactive way of seeing what code does. This thesis presents details of the idea, specification, design, and functionality of the Scripted Artificially Intelligent Basic Online Teaching Simulator, an interactive game that helps reinforce what is taught in class. Through reinforcement students script vehicles to fight each other in a three dimensional environment. In this environment users can play with other people and learning basic programming techniques along with Artificial Intelligence scripting. The users can navigate through the 3D world using a third-person camera or Blind Mode. This allows the user to use techniques learned in class and to observe what happens, resulting in immediate reinforcement of skills and concepts.

Scripted artificially intelligent basic online tactical simulation. $49.99 For many years introductory Computer Science courses have followed the same teaching paradigms. As these paradigms are run on simple console windows there is an area for an interactive way of seeing what code does. This thesis presents details of the idea, specification, design, and functionality of the Scripted Artificially Intelligent Basic Online Teaching Simulator, an interactive game that helps reinforce what is taught in class. Through reinforcement students script vehicles to fight each other in a three dimensional environment. In this environment users can play with other people and learning basic programming techniques along with Artificial Intelligence scripting. The users can navigate through the 3D world using a third-person camera or Blind Mode. This allows the user to use techniques learned in class and to observe what happens, resulting in immediate reinforcement of skills and concepts.

Short Course in Photography $3.5 Used – For one-semester introductory courses in photography. This easy-to-use, inexpensive text introduces students to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. Oriented toward traditional black and white photography, the book also explores digital techniques and web photography resources, equipment, cameras and camera accessories, the exposure and development of film, and the making and finishing of prints. All aspects of the pr

Short Course in Photography $6.51 Used – For one-semester introductory courses in photography. This easy-to-use, inexpensive text introduces students to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. Oriented toward traditional black and white photography, the book also explores digital techniques and web photography resources, equipment, cameras and camera accessories, the exposure and development of film, and the making and finishing of prints. All aspects of the pr

Soccer Robotics $189 This monograph is a comprehensive introduction to the field of soccer robotics. Soccer robotics has become an important research area integrating mechatronics, computer science and artificial intelligence techniques to create real-world autonomous systems. It also serves as a popular test arena in which to compare the different approaches, in diverse types of competition and with varying levels of distributed perception and collaboration. The focus of this monograph is the FIRA framework of Soccer Robotics, in particular MiroSot, which uses a central overhead camera to overview the whole soccer field and a central control of the robots. Soccer Robotics completely describes the different requirements to create a soccer team and details the hardware aspects, the computer vision needed, navigation, action selection, basic skills and game strategy. These aspects are described at an advanced undergraduate to beginning graduate level, resulting in a book not only useful as a text for courses but also indispensable for everyone who wants to participate in MiroSot robotics.

Soccer Robotics $189 This monograph is a comprehensive introduction to the field of soccer robotics. Soccer robotics has become an important research area integrating mechatronics, computer science and artificial intelligence techniques to create real-world autonomous systems. It also serves as a popular test arena in which to compare the different approaches, in diverse types of competition and with varying levels of distributed perception and collaboration. The focus of this monograph is the FIRA framework of Soccer Robotics, in particular MiroSot, which uses a central overhead camera to overview the whole soccer field and a central control of the robots. Soccer Robotics completely describes the different requirements to create a soccer team and details the hardware aspects, the computer vision needed, navigation, action selection, basic skills and game strategy. These aspects are described at an advanced undergraduate to beginning graduate level, resulting in a book not only useful as a text for courses but also indispensable for everyone who wants to participate in MiroSot robotics.

Standing Room Only: Foot and Ankle $132.05 New – “Standing Room Only” is the doctors backstage pass to the most popular orthopaedic skills courses held at the Orthopaedic Learning Center. Each double-disc multimedia learning program will focus on a particular course and offer a selection of educational features, such as lectures, surgical demonstrations, and self-assessment questions to test what the doctors have learned. As a bonus, programs also may include faculty discussion about actual clinical cases, a roving camera that follows co

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Standing Room Only: Foot and Ankle $205.05 New – “Standing Room Only” is the doctors backstage pass to the most popular orthopaedic skills courses held at the Orthopaedic Learning Center. Each double-disc multimedia learning program will focus on a particular course and offer a selection of educational features, such as lectures, surgical demonstrations, and self-assessment questions to test what the doctors have learned. As a bonus, programs also may include faculty discussion about actual clinical cases, a roving camera that follows co