| For some people, electronic gadgets are the most | | | | handled in a logical manner. |
| intuitive tools on the planet. For others, however nothing | | | | Really, the best thing you can do is just spend some |
| could be further from the truth. Well, it's not entirely | | | | time playing around with your camera, and taking |
| their fault, as some gadgets simply suffer from bad | | | | pictures using a number of different features as |
| design. Digital cameras however are usually laid out | | | | possible. There's really nothing you can break. Or at |
| pretty well with the user in mind. They do have a | | | | least there shouldn't be if it's a decent camera. By |
| tendency to bury too many options in several layers of | | | | decent, I would draw the line at around $200 or more. |
| menus, but their getting better. Part of the challenge for | | | | If you paid anything significantly less than that for your |
| digital camera designers, is to decide how to manage | | | | camera, then it could be the camera and not you that |
| all the features that are being crammed into these little | | | | is the problem. |
| silicon boxes these days. | | | | It can be helpful, if you have someone good with |
| Designers have the option to make certain camera | | | | cameras or gadgets in general to help you out. |
| features accessible with the software menus | | | | Teenagers are usually helpful, as it all seems pretty |
| accessible through the LCD screen. They also have | | | | intuitive to them. I think anyone born after 1995 comes |
| the option to make those same features accessible | | | | with a silicon chip in their head or something. Pretty |
| through the buttons, dials, and levers on the camera | | | | scary actually. Although if they also came with a |
| body. They can also make some of the buttons and | | | | remote control that had a big mute button, I could see |
| dials server two purposes. Quite often, depending on | | | | the advantages. |
| what mode your in (video, portrait, landscape, etc) | | | | The bottom line here is, just make sure you get a |
| determines what functions the other buttons perform. | | | | decent quality camera, and you should have no |
| This can become cumbersome and confusing if not | | | | problem getting it to do what you want. |