I can't even guess how many times I've been asked by someone who's not a photographer "What camera should I get?" I'm often at a loss because, frankly, my working camera's do everything...problem is they are huge and heavy. Recommending a camera for other Pro's is easy as we need to have the best, most rugged equipment made. But I have very different needs from the average person so I can hardly recommend my cameras. Professional cameras are tools to get a job done, considerations of form come far after function! Combine that with the fact there are 100's of new point and shoot (P&S) camera's every year which makes it impossible to keep up and recommend anything specific.
I recently purchased an awesome new camera, the Leica D-Lux4. It looks like a point and shoot camera but has the performance of a pro SLR. Well, to be fair, maybe more like a pro-sumer SLR :) But that said, I'm so impressed with this little guy that I thought I would spend a week or two with it and then write up a review.
But this got me thinking, why not start a short series of reviews and tips for the average person to take better photographs and what features you might actually need in a P&S? I don't need to review every camera out there, just tell you the features I think help a non-photographer take better images so you can make informed decisions. I will start with reviewing this and my other point and shoot which will reveal the features I think the average person needs in a camera (yeah, I'll also mention things that make a little camera good for a pro too) and then I will get more into what it takes to make better images. I'm not going to turn you into the next Annie Leibovitz but hopefully you will enjoy taking pictures more and get more keepers.
Okay, I'm off to shoot!
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