Digital cameras

The digital-camera row was still cameras. Megapixels were the number printed largest on the box in those years. Sensor size and the lens decide a low-light picture more than that count.

A small-sensor compact with a long zoom reaches distant subjects and gets noisy indoors. A larger sensor with a shorter zoom does the opposite. A camera that cannot swap lenses is stuck with the zoom range painted on the barrel. The memory card format is the practical trap: SD, SDHC, and later SDXC are not all readable in an older camera, and a card formatted in a computer sometimes will not mount until the camera formats it. Batteries were proprietary on most of this shelf. A charger left at home is a dead camera, because the USB port on many of these bodies did not charge the pack.