I recently came across this article on Which Digital Camera is Best

An excerpt from the article
Folks are always asking me, “Which is better, the Nikon or the Canon?” Sometimes it’s “should I buy the new Sony or the Olympus?” Occasionally, someone will go all out and ask, “What’s the best camera on the market?” or “What’s the best camera for action photography?

Where the author argues about which digital camera is the best.

This has often been a question posed to me also. Many a times we are lured to believing that the higher the megapixel number of the camera, the better it is.

Which I am afraid is not true always. The megapixels factor comes into the picture only when one is looking at really taking big prints of the image or using it at a very high resolution. This factor is hardly been a concern for me since I used a 6.1 MP camera for a long time and only recently have moved to a 12.3 megapixel one.

I have often believed that its the mind composes the photograph, its the eye that takes a photograph… the camera is just a medium to capture the photograph for future reference. I have personally seen many photographs that have been taken by the simplest of cameras and still stand out amongst the rest. The reason being a clear thought behind the photograph and the perfectness in the composition and the lightings.

I do however do agree that the using a SLR camera gives you more features and more options at hand. But the only concern is that one has to be strong fundamentally in terms of composition, understanding the light around and the behavior of subjects before actually pressing the shutter release button. I do take photographs with a Digital SLR.

I moved from a Kodak Kb12 –>Yashica MF 10 –> Vivitar 3800N –> Nikon D70s–> Nikon D300. The journey has been exciting. Each day is a new learning experience and each day the knowledge is added.

I still have not known all the features of my D70s or the D300 and will perhaps know it someday.
Hopefully then I will be able to take “good” photographs!

Till then I am happy shooting these!