JT Spunk | Photography

What is the best digital camera to purchase for a complete novice to the world of digital photography?

There are a lot of parameters to take in account when buying a digital camera. You can go on this website http://www.dpreview.com/ to see camera reviews and decide what is the most important feature(s) that you need on your camera. You can also go to http://www.pbase.com/cameras which is a photo database organised by cameras.

For example: What is more important? The design of the camera or the image quality?

I have been looking for a camera these last few weeks and finally bought the Canon A620 for the following reasons:
-image quality is really good (I checked the photo samples on dpreview.com and on http://www.pbase.com/cameras).
-it can be used in automatic mode as well as a lot of other modes
-It has really good reviews from people who own it
-it was released in 2005, so its price has decreased by now (I paid $250 with a free 1 Gig SD card on NewEgg.com)

Mostly, I would recommend that you do a lot of research on-line and go to see the cameras in stores (to see their size for example). I found that sales persons in stores have a limited knowledge, so I recommend you learn as much as you can about digital cameras and don’t rely on them.

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