All my life I’ve used compact, point-and-shoot cameras, from a Kodak disc camera to a Canon Digital Elph and a slightly less compact Canon PowerShot S2 IS. Last year, after realizing I wanted to ...

Although I used an expensive professional camera photographing the Flaming Lips at Liberty Hall this past summer, a quality compact digital with a wide-angle lens and a large aperture could have ...

As you might expect, you use Aperture-priority mode when you need to control the size of the opening through which light travels to reach the sensor -- usually to affect the depth of field -- but ...