Our Rating System

We try to give you a rating system in accordance with what you might need the digital camera specifically for and try to give you a perspective of how you can use it. We like to call this the cameras utilities, the digital cameras utilities show what you utilize the digital camera for.

Price: If the score is high it means you are getting what you need for a good price, if it is low it means that if you are trying to utilize the cost of the camera then you probably don't want what this camera offers.

Standard Photography: This score is for how much regular shooting you are going to be doing, not editing. If the score is high then you will be getting good quality pictures with a high mega pixel rate, also depends on how good the zoom is on the camera. You need to look at this if you utilize standard picture taking and how important it is to you.

Web Graphics and Advertisements: This is for mainly photoshop editing which doesn't need as much digital power from your digital camera. So if it has a high score it means it has all the basics a digital camera needs and a pretty good zoom. If the score is low it is probably made for more standard picture taking and not editing which would make it superfluous to buy that camera. Utilize this score if editing comes first and camera comes second.

Features: This is a bit simpler, it means all the features that come with the camera. Such as: adusting exposure time, ISO, shot timer, video option, face recognition, and a ton of other things that we mention in the review. If you are looking for all the new gadgets then look for a high rating.

Overall: Of course this is on a grand bases of all those ratings, it is not an average just a general feel for where the camera lands if you need it for practically everything. If you are pretty into cameras, picture taking and everything that goes along with it, this is what you should look at.