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Digital Camera Top Picks

Top Digital Cameras Under $1,000
If your camera budget is $1,000, you have a wide range of digital camera choices. You can get some amazing prosumer cameras, and you have a selection of great budget digital SLR cameras in this price range. Here is a list of the best digital cameras under $1,000.

Digital Cameras Under \$100
Digital cameras can be cheap and still take quality photos, even if you only have under $100 to spend. You can even find low-price digital cameras with 5 megapixels that produce nice enlargements. As a bonus, many cheap digital cameras are also easy to use for beginners. Here's a list of the best digital cameras under $100.

Web Cameras
Webcams are a popular side of the digital camera business. They are inexpensive, and can be used to immediately send photos or video to friends or the world. Webcams allow busy mobile professionals to video conference in the office or on the go, and give families a chance to have video conversations with relatives who live far away. You can participate in video chats, or create video podcasts. Here is a list of the top digital Webcams.

Top Specialty, Unusual and Cool Digital Cameras
Sure, you can get an everyday old digital camera that just takes pictures and stuff. But what if you want to take pictures of images far away, or really up close, in the air, or when people least expect it, or from Fido's head? Your basic camera could never do that. Find out all the cool, funky cameras out there with this list of Top Specialty, Unusual and Cool Digital Cameras.

Top Digital Cameras by Price
It's a simple fact. Most of us have to consider price first before shopping for a digital camera. Even so, there are some wonderful digital cameras out there for every price range. Find out which are the best value digital cameras for your budget.

Top Digital SLR Cameras
The digital SLR is a marriage of the best of both worlds: the convenience of a digital camera with the flexibility of an SLR. Once priced sky-high, now they are starting to drop in price. Here are the top digital SLRs.

Top Digital Cameras With Two Megapixels and Under
There are many inexpensive cameras in the two megapixel and under range. Many camera phones and PDAs also come with low-megapixel cameras. No, you won't make great prints larger than 4x6, but they are great for sharing images online and via e-mail. They also don't consume tons of hard drive space. Often times they are extremely compact and tiny. You can even find credit-card-sized or keychain versions. Here are the top 2-megapixel or less digital cameras.

Top Three Megapixel Digital Cameras
Three megapixel cameras usually offer the best of all worlds. They aren't too expensive, yet you can make a wonderful 4x6 print, and might even knock off some decent 5x7 or 8x10 prints on a good day. In many cases, they have some nice extra features and, sometimes, a little bit of optical zoom. This is a great range for the first-time digital photographer. Here are the best 3-megapixel cameras.

Top Digital Cameras with Four Megapixels
Four megapixel digital cameras can really go a long way without costing a fortune. You can get some great prints as big as 8x10. Many times, these cameras start having some useful extra features and 3x or more optical zoom lenses. Here is a guide to the top digital cameras with four megapixels.

Top Digital Cameras with Five Megapixels
If you love to print and frame your photos, five megapixels is a great level to target. These digital cameras aren't quite to the pro level, but they sure do produse dazzling images that work well printing 8x10s and even 11x14s. You start really seeing nice manual controls and cool features. This is a baby-step (both in price point and skill level needed) towards the tremendously-popular high-megapixel digital SLR cameras.

Top Six-Megapixel (6-megapixel) Digital Cameras
Six megapixels starts getting you dazzling images, incredible prints and introduces you to pro-level or prosumer-level cameras. With the advances in digital cameras and digital SLRs, the selection of cameras with six megapixels or more keeps growing as the pricetag keeps dropping. Here are the top digital cameras with six megapixels or less.