With the recent flood of digital cameras and digital camera related accessories onto the retail market, choosing a digital camera to buy has become some-what of a minefield. I am regularly asked for advice on which digital cameras are the best, where to buy them, which memory card formats are the best, and many more digital related issues.

At Photovision Studios.com we will help you understand more about digital cameras and related accessories, give you advice on buying cameras and equipment and tell you how to get the best out of your digital camera.

• HOW DIGITAL CAMERAS WORK?
This question is often misinterpreted by the 'industry' in particular, like many of you I do not necessarily want to know all the intricate technological details of how a digital camera works I want to know the basic principles, and how variations in digital camera technology, for eg. the difference between the types of imaging sensors or memory card formats will effect the quality of my photos. These are the things we need to know when buying a camera. I am well aware from my days of working behind a till in Jessops selling cameras how easy it is to confuse customers with 'techno-babble'. CLICK HERE TO GO TO DIGITAL CAMERA TERMINOLOGY.

So the basics,...well no different than a standard film camera really. The principles are exactly the same...

The image which you point your camera lens at is projected onto a imaging sensor or digital chip at the back of the camera where a strip of film would normally be. By the magic of 'digitizing', the word given to the system of converting the light which strikes the imaging sensor into binary data the digital camera captures the photo you have taken then stores it as binary data onto a memory card which is then ready to be transferred onto your home computer. Easy!

• WHICH CAMERAS TAKE THE BEST PHOTOS?
The same principles as a conventional film cameras apply to a digital cameras. On film cameras the best quality photos are taken on large format or medium format cameras, these are cameras which take larger film formats than the conventional 35mm format. The larger the piece of film is the better the photo quality is and therefore the larger you can print the photograph.

This is exactly the same principle used with digital cameras, the larger the imaging sensor is the better the quality the photograph.

CLICK HERE to go to our comparison table which illustrates this principle with a selection of digital cameras available on todays market.

As with film cameras digital cameras also follow the same pricing principle, medium format cameras are generally considerably more expensive than 35mm. The larger the imaging chip in your digital camera the larger the price is of the camera!