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Now, there are long dissertations we could have in discussing the differences between cameras and the technical advantages and limitations of each, but let's not do that now because it would bore you to tears. Now, however, having said that there are a few things you do need to know about your camera in order to get the best out of it now, the way most people approach photography with compact digital cameras these days is kind of like buying a car capable of holding five people and going sixty-five miles an hour and then always driving thirty-five miles an hour and carrying only two people at all times. The question is, why limit the quality of your effort when the camera is capable of doing so much more? So as we look at these two cameras, they're both 8 megapixel cameras. Now one cost 3,500 dollars new and the other about 350 dollars brand new. Now why the big difference? The camera on the right has many more features which requires more circuitry, it's built to withstand the rigors of professional usage and the shutter is built to deliver about 300,000 actuations. Now the camera on the upper left has considerably fewer features. It's not built anywhere near as solidly as the big camera and the shutter will deliver about 30-50,000 actuations. But the biggest and most important difference is the size of the sensor that picks up the image when the shutter button is pressed. Plus, the lens on this big camera on the right is four times larger than the lens on the small camera, not as much light is coming in the small camera and what light is entering the small camera is being picked up by a smaller sensor. Now the smaller sensor cannot capture the range of brightness, color gradations and detail that the large sensor can. So when using the smaller camera, you must know your limitations if you're going to get the most out of it. Use the compact camera in sunlight, bright overcast, just about anything outdoors in daylight. Or in flash situations where your subject is no more than ten feet away, plus as we mentioned in the previous lesson, set the camera for the largest physical size at 100 ISO in fine detail properly exposing the tiny sensor in the camera is very important in getting a technically good shot, but when properly exposed, the smaller compact digital can give you very good results, in fact, it's very surprising how good the image can be when the technical settings are properly set and the exposure is adequate.