supergirl613-
I strongly recommend you research specific models with your parents and/or older sibling(s).
I haven’t researched specific models recently, but here are a few general rules I previously posted on this topic that still are true:
The most important question is: digital, film, or whatever’s best?
Assuming digital (most people want that), for a snapshot-taker (as you seem to be) the three major criteria are:
a) portability – if you can’t easily carry it in, say, a shirt pocket, you won’t use it much.
b) ease of use – shutter / aperature / white balance / ISO adjustment are nice to have, but if you can’t simply point-and-shoot you probably won’t want to bother potchking with it.
c) picture quality (most important) – sharpness, color accuracy, fuzziness around the edges, red-eye reduction, image stablization (both digital and mechanical), zoom (optical and digital) for both indoor and outdoor pictures.
Other factors:
durability
price range
stills only, or occasional video as well
Based on your age, I assume you are most likely a snapshot-taker, too.
If you would like to see past threads on this subject, go to Google and past the following into the search window:
Digital camera site:http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/
If you have specific questions, please post them here. Good luck.