| That's it for me, I've got way too many digital cameras | | | | luggage handling charges. Not to mention all those |
| living in my house. At last count there were four or five | | | | battery chargers, USB cords, and individual camera |
| digital cameras floating around here, and I'm not exactly | | | | bags all waiting to be lost. |
| sure how they all got in, but I think it has something to | | | | What we really should have brought, was one good |
| do with my kids and a loose wallet. The wallet being | | | | SLR camera that could take tons of better pictures, |
| mine. I don't even want to think, about the number of | | | | HD movies, and not break the bank. A good SLR |
| digital cameras I've bought as gifts for others. Then of | | | | these days, also shatters the myth that they are far |
| course there are all the cell phones floating around | | | | too complicated to operate. The truth is, that if you can |
| here that also have digital cameras embedded into | | | | operate a regular digital camera, your more than |
| them. People worry about an invasion of privacy when | | | | qualified to work a digital SLR camera. They have all |
| they walk or drive down the road with all the | | | | the same (and more) auto settings, so you never have |
| surveillance cameras, but I worry about it just getting | | | | to fiddle with manual controls unless you want to. And |
| up in the morning. | | | | trust me, once you've get the photography bug with |
| Anyway, all kidding aside, I do think the world as seen | | | | your SLR, your going to love fiddling with the manual |
| enough of the compact inexpensive digital camera to | | | | controls. They open a whole new world when it |
| last it several eons. The next camera I buy, is going to | | | | comes to picture taking creativity. |
| buy, will be an SLR. For years, everyone has shied | | | | So, expert recommendation is to sell all your cheap |
| away from SLR cameras, because they're too | | | | compact cameras on eBay (except for one) to |
| complicated or too heavy, or have too many lenses | | | | someone who hasn't read this article, and get yourself |
| and accessories to carry around. Well, last time I went | | | | a good entry level digital SLR camera. Anything from |
| on a family vacation, I'm sure the culmulative weight of | | | | the Canon Rebel lineup or a Nikon D40 / D60 would |
| all our supposed easy to carry and light weight | | | | do the job. |
| compact cameras cost me an extra twenty bucks in | | | | |