Monday, May 15, 2006
Should you buy a DSLR or Point and Shoot Digital Camera?
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
"Thanks for the question Phalinn - I’ll attempt to keep my answer brief and not too technical. This is a question that I’m regularly asked, increasingly so as the price of DSLRs have dropped and become much more in the reach of the average digital photographer’s budget... I also want to say up front that the digital camera industry is constantly evolving and changing. The lines between DSLRs and point and shoots are blurring (or at least this seems to be the intention of manufacturers). What I write below unfortunately will have elements of generalizations in it as I classify hundreds of cameras (each with their own distinctive features) into two camps. "
Before I read the article, I figured that if I were to answer this question myself, I would recommend that people need one of each. And that is basically what the article recommends. Honestly, the two types of cameras offer you such different things for handling photographs in so many different scenarios that buying both is really justified. I have my Canon EOS 10D as the DSLR and used to have a Canon Powershot S300 as the point and shoot. Ever since I had to give up the latter, I have been missing the times when I need a small camera. The portability and convenience of a point and shoot, sometimes, just cannot be beat.
Before I read the article, I figured that if I were to answer this question myself, I would recommend that people need one of each. And that is basically what the article recommends. Honestly, the two types of cameras offer you such different things for handling photographs in so many different scenarios that buying both is really justified. I have my Canon EOS 10D as the DSLR and used to have a Canon Powershot S300 as the point and shoot. Ever since I had to give up the latter, I have been missing the times when I need a small camera. The portability and convenience of a point and shoot, sometimes, just cannot be beat.
