Tip of the Day: Shopping for a New Digital Camera

If you are in the market for your first digital SLR, you are no doubt trying to decide amongst the large selection of brands and cameras. It has never been better to buy a digital camera than it is today. Of course, one thing holds true about technology: it ages very quickly, and will continuously improve. Nonetheless, today, a good consumer Digital SLR will run you around 1000 dollars, and will capture images at a resolution high enough to produce excellent 13x19's and larger, even when the image is cropped. Recently, Canon released their upgraded Digital Rebel, which they named XTi. This camera was built as a direct competition to Sony's Alpha 100. Both cameras have a 10 Megapixel Digital Sensor, and have many features of high end digital cameras. You cannot go wrong with either camera. Aim for a camera with a sensor no less than 8 Megapixels, so even cropped images will have enough resolution to print larger than 8x10's.