Picking your next camera is not an easy task now. When the companies just used to fight to produce models with more megapixels than their competitor then you knew what to look for, and the camera with the best looks and the most megapixels was usually the one people bought. But now the number of megapixels has reached 12 and more in even normal cameras for just a hundred dollars or so, then the emphasis has switched onto features instead.
The big problem with those features though is they make the cameras very hard to compare.If you had a camera with 10 megapixels and were comparing it against one with 12 megapixels, you’d know which is better, but if one has face recognition and one has smile recognition then how on earth are we supposed to know which is better? The answer is looking at reviews. I love reviews, you can find them on pretty much anything, even the best pink digital camera if you want to.
So have a look online and try to find a site you can trust (not all the reviews you read online are unbiased) and have a look to see what other people think of the features of the camera. Big websites like cnet.com will actually get given one of the cameras and then they will go out and do some tests with it to see if the features actually do what the manufacturer promises they will. Once you have managed to cut it down to just a handful of cameras you really like that have good reviews, then it is time to go to a store where you can try them out. This is a critical part of the buying process because while something might be the best value for money on paper, and other people might love it, then you might hate it once you actually get your hands on it and find the way you hold it keeps activating the menu or something like that.