Buying Guides & Articles:Cameras

Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS Digital ELPH, $249 Canon's Digital ELPHs have always looked good. ... Read more

You're ready to buy a camera. You've got your money in hand and you're ready to start shopping. Before going off to purchase the most gleaming model you can afford,... Read more

You've decided to buy a digital camera - or upgrade to a newer, more powerful one. You're not alone. ... Read more

The camera takes the information from the image sensor and processes and stores it as a collection of pixels in a digital file, usually on a memory card inside the... Read more

On larger compacts or super zooms, you might also find a manual focus ring similar to the one on an SLR lens, although manual focusing on a point-and-shoot works... Read more

Super zoom cameras are characterized by a very long zoom range-10x or greater, which is good for sports, travel, or nature shooting... Read more

Higher resolution doesn't necessarily produce better prints, so don't let a salesperson push a camera solely based on its megapixel count... Read more

Most new models have a slot for xD cards and another for less-expensive SD. Some models in the super zoom S-series are large and include long zoom lenses... Read more

The Vixia line of camcorders is Canon's high-definition models. Along with Sony, it still offers a high-definition MiniDV tape model... Read more

Some HD models can record video in 1080i, the same high resolution as much HDTV programming. Other models record in 720p, an alternative HD broadcast format... Read more