One good reason to buy a Compact Digital Camera soon

Brilliant quality can be easily attained and uploaded from your Compact Digital Camera via Wi-Fi

With new features to enhance connectivity, Compact Digital Cameras are preparing for a comeback. Guinevere Sofer explains

About 20 years ago, the Compact Digital Camera was king of the cameras.

Film cameras were waning, and smartphones were non-existent at the time. In the course of ten years, smartphones and Wi-Fi have fuelled the social media frenzy, enabling everyone to post photos or videos on Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, or YouTube.

Smartphones became the gateway to social media platforms in a short span of time, even though the photos taken by phone cams were grainy, poor in colour, and not sharp. Clearly, the ease of posting and sharing online outweighed the disadvantages of taking pictures with a phone cam.

All this is about to change. The Compact Digital Camera will soon be making a comeback. Here’s why.

The Canon Powershot G16. Compact, powerful and easy to share with its built-in Wi-Fi

Compact Digital Camera‘s Photo Quality is King Compared to Phone Cam’s

There’s no disputing it. A Compact Digital Camera captures better quality images than a phone cam. The Compact Digital Camera is a “dedicated specialist” compared to the “multipurpose” phone cam.

Because it is expected to serve its purpose exceptionally well, that is to take quality photos, the Compact Digital Camera possesses better sensors, processors, optics and software compared to the phone cam.

New generations of Compact Digital Cameras will connect easier than ever

Built-in Wi-Fi, the New Game-Changer

People who loved to take and share pictures online had to live with poor quality photos in exchange for the convenience of connectivity. Fortunately, this will change with the advent of a new wave of Wi-Fi Compact Digital Cameras.

The new Wi-Fi feature, built into models such as the Canon Powershot G16 ($699), Powershot S200 ($399) and Digital IXUS 140 ($269), can connect to your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and E-mail accounts either through a Wi-Fi network or through iOS and Android devices – whichever is easier. How much simpler could it be?

The Wi-Fi feature also allows you to share photos wirelessly with other smartphones, Wi-Fi supported cameras or computers, and to print directly to PictBridge printers.

Finally, with Wi-Fi connectivity built-in, we can all upload great quality images from our Compact Digital Cameras directly to the web. It’s what we’ve been waiting for all this time. Hooray!