SLR Tricks of the Trade

When purchasing your next camera you should look at a real digital SLR if you need any or all of the following features:

Reliability; bodies of the SLR almost never fail as opposed to point and shoot cameras which are built for light weight and low cost SLR cameras have large, bright, accurate optical viewfinder
SLR cameras produce good quality images in low natural light, e.g., indoors without blasting everything with flash
SLR’s have the ability to attach specialty lenses, e.g., very wide angle lenses for interiors, scenery, and architecture, or long telephoto lenses for sports photography

Accessories
Additional things you may want to purchase include a lens cleaning kit.

You will also definitely need at least one memory card. Most of the compact digital cameras take SD cards. If you are taking JPEG photos rather than RAW, you’ll be able to fit between 250 and 500 images in a 1 GB card.

1 GB SD cards: SanDisk
2 GB SD cards: SanDisk
4 GB SD cards: SanDisk (good for a long trip into a remote area where you can’t copy images to a computer)
It is much more convenient to use a single memory card for an entire project or trip rather than using multiple cards.