One of the initial boundaries to entering the digital images discipline is deciding on applicable equipment. Bridge cameras are a flexible and inexpensive alternative to DSLRs They provide many of the same manual controls (as well as a bunch of easy-to-use auto modes) plus an enormous constructed-in zoom lens that covers all the things from broad-angle to super-telephoto images.

Bridge cameras have larger sensors and offer extra mega pixels than most compacts. Nikon has new superzoom cameras: The travel-oriented Coolpix A1000 ($480) has a 35x optical zoom (24-840mm equivalent), a 16MP sensor, three-inch tilting touchscreen, and can record 4K videos.

The camera has a view of the complete image, relatively than the very restricted info from an autofocus sensor, and may be a lot smarter abou...