Digital Travel Photography Digital Field Guide

Chapter 1. Exploring the Digital Camera

In This chapter

• Digital camera categories

• Considerations for a New Camera

The digital camera you own right now is probably the perfect tool to capture memories of your trip. All you may need are some accessories that can give you some extra capabilities or will make your photography a bit easier. If that's the case, you'll find some suggestions for equipping yourself in Chapter 2, and some accessorizing tips in Chapter 5.

This chapter is aimed at familiarizing you with digital camera features that are most useful when taking travel and vacation pictures. If you're thinking of upgrading to a newer or better camera, you'll find some information on the various categories available today, and what they have to offer.

Although it's a safe assumption that as readers of this book you already own the digital camera you'll be using on your travels, it's still worth devoting a few pages to the ideal features and capabilities you'll need. After all, a very special journey may prompt you to buy a new, very special camera. Or, you might find that several members of your traveling party want their own digital cameras so they can capture their own memories.

For most of us, a digital camera isn't a lifetime investment. It's something we buy in the same way we purchase a computer, as a tool that gives us the advantage of current technology, but with the full expectation of replacing it somewhere down the road with a smaller, better, more powerful, more flexible ...