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Summary: Digital cameras can be consumer level, prosumer, or professional. Learn all about digital camera levels of quality in this free photography video.
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"There are other features that are important but they're not necessarily in the lower end cameras and they are the ability to make a movie. So there's a, make a movie that you can playback on your computer and some of them will make movies with sound. Other features are Macro ability. Macro ability is the ability to get close. You've seen pictures where they shoot a humming bird or even a honey bee or a flower. You have to get close to make a flower full frame in your photograph and a lot of them have that mode. It depends on the camera and the camera make and the features. Most of the consumer cameras are silver, there's three different kinds of levels of cameras. At the consumer level there is the semi-pro level now called a prosumer and then there is the professional level."