It’s a treasure that we keep locked deep within the store house of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely…..A nostalgic escape from the tormented days of the present…..The faith to go on…..God made it so that we can have roses in winters…. It’s a memory!!!

A digital camera is all you need to capture your memories, record them and cherish them anytime you feel like to snuggle in the comforts of memories…

A digital camera or digicam is one that takes images or records videos or both using an electronic image sensor. Digital cameras are replacing their counterparts; the conventional film cameras rapidly. They have an edge on the old film cameras in many perspectives:

§ Displaying images on the screen immediately after taking picture

§ Huge Storage – Storage of thousand of images on a single device

§ Video Recording along with still photographs

§ Deletion Option to free storage space

Conventional film cameras though can be converted to digital cameras but the cost is too high and the technology is also at such an increasing pace that it’s better to replace the old with the new one.

Digital cameras have become a part of our daily lives. They are available incorporated in other devices also. Such devices range from the mobiles with digital cameras to vehicles. Also these are used in specialized form like in telescopes to capture stills of heavenly bodies and this is how digital cameras were evolved in fact. History of true digital cameras for still photography dates back to 1988 when Fuji launched DS-1P but it was never marketed. Dycam Model 1 was the first ever commercially available digital camera.

With the passage of time advancement in technology gave rise to a series of various kinds of digital cameras catering various needs of the customers. Also it is the reason for declining prices of digital cameras; now you can buy more and more pixels per dollar. You can get a digital camera for as less than even $100.

What type of digital camera is best suited for an individual depends upon the fact that for what use you need it. Whether you use it just to capture the memories and share these with your dear and near ones or you are going to use it for professional purposes or you need an economical deal to suit your budget, technology has come to a level that it can satisfy your needs on your terms.

However, there are certain features which one should pay attention to before making a decision about purchase of a digital camera:

§ Image Resolution (Disicams range from 0.01 to 60.5 megapixles)

§ Connectivity to other Hardware (For purpose of saving image, printing image & displaying image)

§ Modes (Preset and changeable parameters)

§ Image Data Storage (Memory cards and Flash)

§ Image Data Storage Format (JPEG and MPEG etc.) &

§ Batteries (Off-the-shelf and Proprietary)

Companies like Sony, Samsung, Canon, Nikon, Olympus and Kodak are introducing digital cameras with more and more advanced features to delight you by preserving your happy moments. So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.