It is about fall season in 2007, when I have budget to buy camera digital. It is just like the dream come true. So, I try to browse any site that make review on camera. But, before I search, try to ask and read about the guidance to buy first camera. I found some clues, such as:
- What the purpose of the camera, as a hobby or professional or combination.
- If you want to make documentation of family, a video it is thing you can consider, cause sometime your kid expression can not be captured by still camera.
- Consider the budget that you plan. Maybe you have to add your budget as long as you get the best camera.
So, I make some criteria:
- Suit to my limited budget.
- Have manual setting cause I like to make experiment
- Suit to make video cause I will use as my family gadget
- Long zoom is preferable
- And of course a good quality
So, at that time I focus to some brand and type, cause the budget I skip the SLR. The price is higher than my budget. So, I compare the prosumer model and pocket model, but with the gap price is small enough, I think the prosumer have more advantange and give more flexibility to explore.
Then I go to www.dpreview.com, I found the Canon S5iS as the best prosumer camera for me. One advantage of this camera is it have a hot shoe (even until now, I do not buy external flash) but it is very helpful someday.
Now, I use this camera to capture all thing that interesthing for me…
Hopefully you can choose your first camera well, so you do not waste the time and your money
