Originally Posted by
S.o.S.
Thank you, an interesting thread. I'm still on analogue and cannot decide on which digital to go for.
The criteria are the same, a camera with a multi-megapixel CCD and a tiny lens is not going to take as good pictures or be as versatile as one with a big lens and anything over about 10 MP, the pixels aren't going to show unless you are going to take poster-size prints. A new thing to keep an eye out for is battery life. If you want to film videos, something that is going to run out of puff after 30 minutes may not be for you.
You have more choices of format with a digital. You don't need a viewfinder, so there are mirrorless cameras which are as good as an SLR. I personally want something that will go in a shirt pocket, these can have up to 8x zoom but obviously don't have as big lenses as a DSLR or mirrorless. At the top end, there are digital backs which will go on the back of a Hasselblad or Rollei, so you can use your existing analogue camera. At the bottom end, there are £ 15 cameras which do 1080p but the lack of zoom, focus, and a decent sized lens mean that they aren't even as good as a phone camera. But they're no loss if you drop them, and they will film 60 minutes of 1080p video.