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Summary: Find the best digital camera for you by looking for the features and options you want. Learn all about digital cameras and photography in this free photography video.
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"There are other common features to just about all the digital cameras, and that is the flash. And you can turn that on, off, and turn it for red eye reduction on quite a few cameras. It also has a self-timer so that you could set it somewhere, and press the self-timer, and then walk around and get in front of it and it will be ten to fifteen seconds, and then it will shoot the camera. Another thing is, is that the lower end cameras normally have about a 3x optical zoom, which means that it will zoom some, but not quite as far as the large super zoom cameras that we'll be talking about later on. Also, just about all the cameras have different program variables that is on the exposure. So most of the time you're going to want to keep it in Program Mode, and then there's varies for action oriented, which has a faster shutter speed, and then there are landscapes, and then there's closeups and portraits, all slightly different types of exposure levels."
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