CAMERA VARIATIONS
Just as with film cameras, there is a great variety of camera choices when selecting a digital camera. Observe a wide range of camera selections below.

While any list of cameras I select to discuss will quickly become obsolete, the basic families of digitial cameras should remain fairly stable. I usually group cameras into three broad categories: SLRs, point and shoot, and alternative media. DSLR's are becoming more and more popular, but do have the drawback of weighing quite a bit. This is especially true of the weather sealed professional bodies.

With the advent of digtal memory becoming much cheapter, we do not recommend the alternative media cameras. Buy larger memory cards and a backup device. You will be much happier.

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