Before You Buy a Digital Camera With a digital camera, you can improve photos after they're shot, make your own prints at home, and share them easily over the Internet.
Digital cameras are now standard professional gear.
They let you take lots of shots in a way that's easily transmitted from afar, while using reusable memory instead of consumable film. The technology requires just enough fiddling to be of interest more to relatively serious amateurs than casual snapshooters. But as with so many things digital, capabilities are increasing as prices drop, making digital cameras more attractive to more people. Among Consumer Reports readers who bought a camera early in the year 2000, for example, about one in four chose a digital model. The cameras appeal to your creative side.