About Digital Camera: Pocket, Super Zoom, and SLR

About Digital Camera - Until today there have been too many digital cameras sold in market. They are divided into three type of digital camera:

1. Pocket digital camera
2. Super zoom digital camera (prosumer digital camera)
3. Single Lens Reflex (SLR) digital camera.

Pocket Camera

90% digital camera owners have pocket camera. Pocket camera is small, simple and easy to operate it.

Pocket camera can record video, a favorite feature. And sometimes it can make amazing photos, however there are some limitation those are making pocket camera to be weak:

• Shutter lag, defined as time lag between pressing shutter release and picture recording. Time lag may be half a second only, but in the photography half a second can be fulfilled with important moments to recorded.

• Weak in low lighting condition, due to pocket camera only equipped with mini sensor. In low light condition, such as indoor or twilight condition, the photos frequently blur and tend to be noised.

• Limited zoom, pocket camera has two type zooming, optical zoom and digital zoom. Optical zoom is much better than digital zoom, digital zoom is only extrapolated pixel program.

Benefits of having pocket camera are:

• Small is beautiful, easy to carry and no need to learn how to use anymore.

• Low price, this is the economic way to have moment pitures in your life.

• Sometimes people don't be looked like photographic press or may be a paparazzi.

Super-Zoom Camera

A Super-Zoom camera is bigger than a pocket camera, and it has optical zooming much better.

Viewfinder of the Super-Zoom camera help photographer from daylight dazzling. Super-zoom camera usually has fold-able LCD, help photographer taking photos in complicated situation.

Unfortunately, super-zoom camera still equipped with small sensor, so it's one step much better than pocket camera. It's good in outdoor photography, however it has the same quality with pocket camera for indoor photography. It is not equipped with interchangeable lens, you have to use the only lens for many kind of photography. And the super-zoom camera size is not small again, you have to bring it in shoulder as an SLR camera.

SLR Camera

SLR (Single Lens Reflex) Camera is the camera that yield the best photos among all the camera types. Because of its product quality always good, SLR camera type always used by professional photographers and the amateurs always dream to have it. It's equipped with interchangeable lens, such as macro lens, zoom lens, telephoto lens or fixed lens according to your requirement.
However, as according to quality and satisfaction you can get, it's price is relatively expensive.

All types of digital cameras give us an advantage in freedom we take the pictures, because we are no longer subject to availability celluloid film. That's one of the reasons that makes digital cameras and photographic techniques to grow very rapidly.