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Knowing next to nothing about cameras, I just bought my wife a DSLR (the Nikon D3300) based on the recommendation of thewirecutter.com, and she loves it. I don'

Knowing next to nothing about cameras, I just bought my wife a DSLR (the Nikon D3300) based on the recommendation of thewirecutter.com, and she loves it. I don't think there's a need to feel "lame" about it -- there's a limited number of decisions I can make in a day[1] and an even smaller number that I can truly be well informed on. For all the rest, I'm totally happy to outsource my decision making to online review aggregators like yelp/amazon or curation platforms like thewirecutter.com. It seems to be working so far. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10490354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10490354

lfowles 11y ago
Absolutely. I pick out one or two key features I want beyond the basics and then see if any of the highly rated models have those. If I'm shopping for a point and click that can take a picture only when it detects everyone's eyes open, then trying to make a decision on megapixels as well is pretty much waste of my time. I might as well flip a coin or choose the highest rated model with that feature (or give up on the feature if no models rate well!).