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Digital Cameras are an essential component for every home today. Here I am explaining the most important 10 things you should know before buying a Digital Camera. Before you set foot into your local electronics store, you should establish a clear budget for your purchase. There are around thousand models between Rs. 3,000 and Rs. 1,00,000 available for you to choose from, and the best way to narrow your search is to have a good idea of how much you want to spend. You should view your camera purchase as an investment: the more money you spend, the more features and better quality you are going to get. Moving even Rs. 5000 or Rs. 10,000 in your price range makes a big difference.

Another baby for all you Sony DSC fans out there - Sony India is introducing the 7.2 MP DSC-H5 with a Super HAD CCD. A high-intensity flash that can reach up to 16m - great for taking those night-time shots with expanded high-zoom range. Clad in black and silver, the new Cybershot DSC-H5 model has a 7.2-megapixel CCD imager and extra-large, three-inch LCD screen. The DSC H5 flaunt Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 12x optical zoom lenses and focal length ranges of 36 to 432 millimeters (35 mm equivalence).

It's got a sweet 3.0" preview LCD, so Sony assures you constant joy whether you are taking pictures or showing them off. The lens offers a 12x optical zoom (equivalent of 36-432mm for a 35mm film camera). Hand-movement and subject-movement corrections are integrated too, so you can say goodbye to blurred photos.

Canon PowerShot S2 IS - Rated as the Best Prosumer Digital Camera of 2005 by IT Portal.org

Even if Canon announced the availability of S3 IS one month back (Priced Rs.25,000) we highly recommend the last year Hero S2 IS (Priced Rs.17,000) for our visitors.

'S2 IS' is a Five Megapixel Hybrid Digital Camera Features 12x Image Stabilized Optical Zoom, High Quality VGA Movie Mode, "MovieSnap" Function and Stereo Sound etc. The newly announced S3 IS is same as S2 IS but with 6 Mega Pixels.

DV3020 is a compact Digital HandyCam & Still Camera, a product from Orite, a Taiwan based company. The main features of this camera includes MPEG4 Video Recording, 3.2M Digital Camera, Stereo MP3 Player, Voice Recording, USB Web Camera & Flash Memory Storage. 

Orite DV3020 comes in an ultra-compact design in a blue shiny cover. It's one incredible, lightweight, pocket-sized unit and you get a Digital Video Camera, Digital Still Camera, USB 2.0 Web Cam, Digital Voice Recorder, MP3 Player and Mass Storage Device all together. This Orite DV 3020 six-in-one solution lets you take it almost anywhere. It's a true 3.0M CMOS sensor with 8X digital zoom with maximum interpolation up to 6.6 mega pixels and it has 16MB of built-in memory that makes it easy to capture lots of images.

The Sony DCR-HC42 is an extremely compact megapixel DV Handycam with Memory Stick Duo, Handycam Station, DV In, Zeiss lens, Touch Screen LCD and true 16: 9 widescreen mode.

The DCR-HC42 makes transferring data a cinch via the included Handycam Station docking device. So you can easily connect to television for viewing and to a USB-compatible PC for editing and sharing digital images and video. Memory Stick Duo' media compatibility makes it simple for you to take your images with you wherever you go.

You've never seen anything quite like the PowerShot A620. Loaded with features, this high-performance camera has a 7.1 Megapixel CCD to give you magnificent pictures at a price that will amaze you. And it's easy to use. Everything about this superb camera has been designed for your picture-taking pleasure. And that makes it fun!

Camcorder/Handy Cam is an essential component for every home Nowadays. Here I am explaining the most important 10 things you should know before buying a camcorder. Before you set foot into your local electronics store, you should establish a clear budget for your camcorder purchase. There are around Hundred models between Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 2,00,000 available for you to choose from, and the best way to narrow your search is to have a good idea of how much you want to spend. You should view your camcorder purchase as an investment: the more money you spend, the more features and better quality you are going to get. Moving even Rs. 5000 or Rs. 10,000 in your price range makes a big difference. However, that's not to say that there aren't low-priced "gems" out there. There are many camcorders that beat the pants off models that cost hundreds more.

JVC has announced a new series of camcorders that eliminate the need to carry tapes, discs or any media at all, yet they can record up to 7 hours of DVD movie-quality video. They also record more than 10.5 hours at a quality level comparable to a DVD camcorder's 30-minute mode, claims the company. The new Everio G series record to a built-in hard disk drive and are available in 20- or 30GB versions.

JVC's initial Everio G offering consists of four models. The GZ-MG20 ($700) offers a 20GB hard disk drive and the GZ-MG30 ($800) ships with a 30GB hard disk drive, providing 7 and 10.5 hours respectively. Higher-end models with a 1.33-Megapixel CCD are the 7-hour 20GB GZ-MG40 ($800) and 10.5-hour 30GB GZ-MG50 ($900). To put the storage capacity in context, it would take around 22 DVD camcorder discs (8cm/1.4GB discs) to hold 7 hours of video.