Camera Christmas Shopping Tip

With a little more than one month to go before Christmas, I wanted to a couple of quick tips to help you select a digital camera as a gift either for a family member or friend, or for yourself.

1. First, if you're buying a point-and-shoot, consider the following list. It's a fairly thorough list of what's out there.
2. Next, look at the list, find the cameras with the least amount of shutter lag time. You wouldn't want to miss the rowers in this picture, if you were standing on a bridge in Paris, while you're waiting for some chip in your camera to tell the camera to open and close the shutter.
3. Buy a camera that has access to lots of the settings in the knob at the top. Look for the letters Av and Tv as part of the rest of the nomenclature in that knob. Some cameras, such as the Kodak EasyShare, have Tv (shutter speed setting) within an option only available on the LCD screen, and the shutter speed times are very limited, and result poor picture quality.
4. Look for ISO speeds of at from 100 to at least 800.
5. At the store, set the camera to a high ISO speed and take a picture. If the picture is grainy, don't buy.

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