Digital camera - which one to get

Unless you are into big time cropping and making posters megapixel are not that important. A good camera with between 5 and 10 mp will do fine. I would stay with a Canon or Nikon. I like the Canon and think the photos are just a little sharper and colors are slightly brighter, but a Nikon person would probably disagree with me. Canon and Nikon are the standard that all other cameras are compared to. I think the Canon Powershot A 500 series is very good. I have been researching a camera for my sister in law and the Canon A590 is one that gives you a great point and shoot camera with the ability to take more control over the camera and the picture as you learn to use the camera. The cost is under $200 and you might find sales now for under $150. If you want something more like a DSLR camera but without the size or having to change lens you might want to consider a Canon G9 (12.1 MP) or G10 camera. They are going for around $400 to $500. I have a G9 as a back up to my DSLR and have taken some great shots. You can also do major cropping with this camera and an editing program.

you need to do a thorough research before purchasing a new digital camera.. you can check out for specs online... i also wanted to buy a digicam for myself, a sony cybershot.. sony cybershot models have wide range of features such as 5-10 MP, face detection, smile shutter and many more..

With any compact camera, it is too easy to be swayed by the pixels. Lens quality counts for a lot, and so does the shutter lag (or lack of it - there is little worse than pressing the button and finding the action has passed before the camera finally responds). A camera with no viewfinder quickly becomes a burden; in bright sunlight they are impossible to see properly, and lots of photo opportunities pass you by, and when you take a flash picture, the extra battery drain from the LCD can keep you from taking another shot for 10 seconds or more. When the light is poor, compact cameras with more than about 8 megapixels produce ugly "noise" which badly degrades the final image. Cameras with larger sensors (SLRs and a very small number of expensive compacts from Leica/Panasonic) can do better with noise, and cameras with Foveon sensors and CMOS sensors are very good in poor light. High ISO ratings are only really useful with cameras of this kind. Only 2 compact cameras that I know of have CMOS sensors and they are both Canons, released just this month. Another issue with overly large megapixel counts is the processing speed: they need a lot of computing power, so they a slower between shots and have slower "burst" modes. For instance, at 3 megapixels, my wife's Olympus shoots 20 frames per second, gets 13fps at 6mpxls, but it slows to 2.5 fps at 12 megapixels. Most cameras over 8 mpxl can't even manage 3fps. For an "everyday" camera I suggest you look at a model with 6 to 8 megapixels (10 should still be acceptable)and optical zoom of 6x or better. Look for a well known brand, and make sure it has separate viewfinder. Don't be swayed by digital zoom or "total" zoom (that is just sales talk for optical + digital zoom - but it is only the optical that counts. Check out that it takes the picture when you press the shutter release, not moments later, and that it has a good macro mode. A range of "Scene" modes is useful, and being able to exercise some manual over-rides is even better, so long as you don't have to hunt through a complicated or pooly organised menu to apply them.

Oh yeah, megapixels are the main thing to look at in a camera since it's the quality of the pictures and all. my friend got a 12 megapixel one and takes excellent quality pictures. what i'd do if I were you, just get the one with most megapixels as long as you can afford it.

try sony cybershot....its pretty gud!!