By Obinna Heche
It is a well know fact that digital cameras can do things film cameras cannot, displaying images on a screen immediately after they are recorded, storing thousands of images on a single small memory device, recording video with sound and deleting images to free storage space. They are incorporated into many devices ranging from pdas and mobile phones called camera phones to vehicles. They have high power requirements and over time have become increasingly smaller in size, which has resulted in an ongoing need to develop a battery small enough to fit in the camera and yet able to power it for a reasonable length of time.
Compact cameras are actually designed to be small and portable. The smallest are described as subcompacts or ultra compacts. Compact cameras are usually designed to be easy to use, sacrificing advanced features and picture quality for compactness and simplicity. Images can usually only be stored using lossy compression jpeg. Compacts often have macro capability but if they have zoom capability the range is usually less than for bridge and dslr cameras. They have a greater depth of |
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