My standard advice to anyone looking to buy a digital camera is check out the reviews at http://www.imaging-resource.com/ They have lots of good reviews (sometimes you can print the out and use them as a manual for your camera). They also have a good recommendation wizard.
Another good site is http://dpreview.com/, which has good user forums (frequently with lots of sample pictures uploaded by users).
For taking pictures of kids, some cameras have a "smile detector" and a "blink detector" (they'll take a picture when someone smiles and they'll warn you afterwards if it thinks that someone blinked). Another feature that might be useful when taking pictures of kids (or anything else that moves) is a camera that will take multiple pictures while you hold the shutter button.
Depending upon the nature of the movies you need to shoot, you might be able to use your digital camera to take HD movies (my little pocket camera takes nice HD (720P) videos in a format that is ready to be uploaded to Youtube).
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Date: Thursday, May 26th, 2011 08:04 pm (UTC)Another good site is http://dpreview.com/, which has good user forums (frequently with lots of sample pictures uploaded by users).
For taking pictures of kids, some cameras have a "smile detector" and a "blink detector" (they'll take a picture when someone smiles and they'll warn you afterwards if it thinks that someone blinked). Another feature that might be useful when taking pictures of kids (or anything else that moves) is a camera that will take multiple pictures while you hold the shutter button.
Depending upon the nature of the movies you need to shoot, you might be able to use your digital camera to take HD movies (my little pocket camera takes nice HD (720P) videos in a format that is ready to be uploaded to Youtube).