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Point and click to find wealth of digital camera answers online

March 14th, 2006

Point and click to find wealth of digital camera answers online
By Gregg Ellman
Knight Ridder

Are you looking for a simple Web site to help you buy a digital camera or to help you with your digital photography? Not a problem – just go to Google and search “digital photo Web sites” and you can look over the millions of sites it finds.

To make it a little easier, here are a few that can help you with subjects such as finding that perfect point-and-shoot camera and helpful digital photo shooting tips:

www.digital-photo-secrets.com: A neat thing about this site is that it offers a free e-mail course on digital photo secrets. After you sign up, every day for three weeks you will get a digital photography secret from David Peterson, who runs the site and is author of “Digital Photography Secrets,” a good book for improving your digital photography.

Some of the e-mail secrets cover how close you should get to your subjects, the best way to photograph nature, getting better photos of your children, the photographic rule of thirds, using the correct accessories and the advantages of using optical rather than digital zoom.

In his book, Peterson goes over many more topics to improve your photography and bridge the gap between film and digital.

www.betterphoto.com: This site offers courses, contests, blogs, reviews and helpful shooting tips. The site also has camera reviews, links to other photography Web sites, books for sale and all kinds of tips.

www.digitalcameras.com: If you want to buy a digital camera, this site can be helpful. It’s broken down into categories that will link you to retail sites of all the big camera manufacturers. Categories range from cheap digital cameras to the high-end models. Accessories from underwater camera cases to tripods are linked off the home page.

www.digitalcameratracker.com: Another site with multiple reviews and links to get the best price on the camera of your choice. The reviews are broken down by brands and manufacturers, so it’s easy to find the model you might be looking for.

www.dpreview.com: Digital Photography Review is a popular site with an audience of 18 million visitors a month. It offers original content with detailed articles. Included is a digital camera database, forums and galleries. What distinguishes this site from others is the in-depth digital camera reviews. At the end of each review is a chart showing the cost at various retailers.

www.digitalcamera-hq.com: This site is a great start for finding out information on a particular camera. It has a lot of reviews, along with links to various other handy sites.

Finally, this should give you an indication of the growing popularity of digital photography: Last month, Nikon announced that it would now only manufacture two film cameras: the flagship model F6 and the FM10.

Nikon said the film market is shrinking as customers shift from the compact digital cameras to digital SLRs.

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