Jed Pittman

A few weeks ago I was lucky and got a new digital camera for Christmas. As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I was able to actually start getting back into taking pictures because I knew that the camera was of higher quality. I was even lucky enough to take some pictures of some amazing Ice Sculptures from New Years’ Eve.

In order to understand the difference, I’ve learned that it is not enough to simply look at megapixel count. Much of this focus on number of megapixels is not necessary. However, my original camera was only about 2 megapixels and the Sony Cybershot is about 8.1 megapixels.

There is a difference when you make that much of a move. Now when organizing my pictures with Picasa, I’m able to easily get everything into a picture and not worry about zooming or cropping and ending up with an inferior picture.

One of the other things that I really enjoyed about this camera was how intuitive the controls and the features were. There was a simple lightning bolt symbol for the flash and a clock logo for the timer. And it has newer features that I haven’t seen before too. There was even a face-detection feature and real optical zoom, as opposed to the digital zoom on my prior camera. Sony Cyber Shot Camera

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