You want to play it safe with a hybrid?

You want nice photos but are technologically retarded or afraid to go DSLR? Perhaps the Hybrid is a good bet. Hybrids let you control shutter speeds, ISO speeds and aperture size, in fact they’ll let you do most things a DSLR will. However it takes a little bit more time and isn’t quite as intuitive to play with the settings.

Often times Hybrids will have more functions than DSLR, like recording movies and shooting in B&W (which is silly because you can always convert your images to B&W via photo editing software, but you can’t switch B&W to color. Unless you’re magic. Are you magic? Cause if you are magic then go ahead and then make me better looking). If these functions are your fancy then and you want to take pretty good pics, Hybrids are the way to go.

What’s a hybrid? An electric car for anal retentive people that believe in such myths as global warming and cameras that aren’t compact but aren’t quite DSLR. I’m probably the only one who calls them hybrids. They’re camera’s that have lenses with words like 2x – 30x which means they can zoom pretty well, better than a compact usually. Often times the lenses can even be switched out for other lenses, although they try to make the main lens a sort of “one size fits all lens”. Their functionality tends to mimic compact cameras but also gives you greater control of settings for more professional users.

I don’t really know much about these cameras. In fact I don't even know what they're really called or honestly what market they serve. I do know that my sister-in-law has one and she likes it just fine. It takes good pictures and even video (which DSLR’s do not do to my knowledge). It’s a good fit for her because she wants better pictures but doesn’t want to spend a lot of money on the camera or the lenses. Also these cameras can be surprisingly affordable.

Know that if you decide to go the hybrid route the accessories aren’t that interchangeably like with DSLRs if you decide to upgrade. ..and a crazy lady just sat across from me on the public transit system…oh wait it’s a man that sounds like a girl. And now he’s looking out the window like an excited puppy dog. So I’ll end on that image, if only I had my camera.