| Yes, yes, I know they cost more money. But, that's | | | | cause me to miss good photo opportunities. |
| really a one time thing. It doesn't matter what your | | | | My kids recently got very much into competitive |
| buying, whether it's cars, homes, dogs, or cameras. A | | | | swimming. If you've ever been a parent at a swim |
| few months or years down the road, the price you | | | | meet, you understand how impossible it is to get |
| paid for something is quite often forgotten. What really | | | | decent pictures of your kids swimming when your |
| matters, is if the item is doing the job you bought it for. | | | | sitting from any distance in the stands. It's the kind of |
| If it's not, your likely to just go shopping again, and end | | | | sport where you need to get as close as possible to |
| up replacing it with a more expensive item. In the case | | | | the action to really good pictures. We also bought a |
| of cameras, you may find, that it's better to buy a | | | | sailboat a few years ago. One of the things sailors like |
| good SLR camera today, than a great compact | | | | to have, is pictures of themselves sailing their boat. |
| camera that will need to be replaced shortly. | | | | That's tough to do with any camera. But, if you have a |
| I'll try and give you an example of what I mean. The | | | | camera with a good zoom, and high quality lenses you |
| first four digital cameras I bought were all compact | | | | can get great pictures of your friends sailing their |
| digital cameras. Now, it's not entirely that I have a thick | | | | boats. |
| head, and need to make repeated mistakes to learn | | | | So, all in all, what you should really do, is buy yourself |
| the same lesson, as the cameras were all for different | | | | the more expensive SLR camera now, as you know it |
| members of my family. But, one thing the cameras all | | | | will always take great pictures in any environment for |
| have in common, is the same inadequacies. They can't | | | | years to come. In the long run, it will be the cheaper |
| take pictures from a long distance, they take lousy | | | | choice. |
| pictures in low light, and they are often slow enough to | | | | |