Camera Buying Guidelines A
t some point, you’ll be upgrading to a new camera. Even though the number of camera companies has dwindled (anybody still remember camera companies named Minolta, Topcon, Ricoh, Praktica, Asahi Pentax, Rollei, Kowa, or Voightlander?), the number of camera models is large. It can be a confusing experience to make a decision. Even if you’re committed to a particular manufacturer because of your investment in their lenses, it’s challenging to know what to get. I’m not going to recommend a particular camera, but I want to go over a number of fea-
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tures that you should be looking at in making a decision. Depending on what you shoot and what you’ll be doing with the pictures, these guidelines should be helpful to you in narrowing down the choices. 1. Megapixel count. Most good cameras now offer between 21 and 24 megapixels. This is fine for most people and for most applications. You can make superb prints, you can sell the images, and of course this kind of resolution is more than what’s needed to post images in social media, email photographs, and enter contests. I recently bought the Canon R5, and one reason
