Shopping for the Right Camera
Shopping for the right camera is a different ball of wax when career earnings are on the line. It’s a sticky wicket when money is on the horizon based on your camera shopping choice. The ads are splashed everywhere, in the right market you are spoiled for choice. It’s tempting to buy the deal camera, not the camera you should really be holding out for.
The shopping and research for a new digital camera is taxing. What do brands mean? Why are the most popular digital cameras not essentially the one you would choose? The trick to finding the best camera comfortable enough for use to take high quality stock shots in volume is to match your habits with camera types. This camera selection method will match the best camera for you.
Unless you have owned a camera, been out on a shutterbug spree, or spent time observing or learning from a professional photographer or taken a photo class, it’s the luck of the draw. And many photographers enjoy the control and manipulation of lenses, lights, apertures, and modes more than others. Other people may just want grandma’s face over the birthday cake.
Photographers of all ranges of experience will end debating between megapixels and price points. To go digital or SLR, it’s the question for the ages. The consumer photography appetite for product has made the whole world of shopping for a camera a jungle of prices, sales, extended service agreements, and brand names.
I have a confession: I used to sell cameras and video recorders at a very popular discount store. Yes, that one. I took all the trainings and listened to all the seminars and studied all the data sheets. I knew which cameras were slick and easy to sell, while other models lay on the display, unwanted and destined for the sale shelves.
I knew to a certainty all the factors and phrases that made up the right camera. I could hawk a Kodak or Sony without looking at the label years later. I just didn’t have enough experience taking and delivering pictures to know how these terms involved my actual preferences for a physical camera. Now I know how easy it had been to sell cameras to people. They didn’t know either.
Trouble is, unless you have the utility from experience taking pictures and working with cameras to relate to the vocabulary,  the value fails. Without actually spending time taking pictures, these terms become little more than jargon. And I moved a lot of camers with the jargon. But I felt stage fright shopping for my own camera!
