This article is about the cheap camera that an Architect, Engineer or Contractor needs at a construction site to take photos of buildings under construction or to take survey photos of buildings to be remodeled. This article will not cover the fancy and expensive Digital-SLR cameras used to take beauty shots of finished projects. Over the years I have purchased and used a lot of the basis cameras and want to share my experience.
The most important factor in selecting the right camera is the lens angle. As an construction professional you will need the widest angle lens you can get your hands on. Think about the pictures that you need to take. Many of the pictures are inside so you are going to be near to what you are photographing. For example, you are going to remodel an office and need to take photos of the existing toilet rooms, this is a small room so you can't keep backing-up to get everything into frame. Most of the point and shoot digital cameras have a lens that goes down to only 35mm, this is not wide enough. I strongly recommend that you find a camera that goes to 28mm or less. For example the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS1 has a 25mm lens so it works great for survey and construction site photos, plus the quality can get you those beauty photos if the light is right. There are other point and shoot cameras with similar lenses so look for them.
Once you have the right lens everything else is simple, anything over 6 mega-pixels is fine resolution, SD or micro-SD cards work. One feature that is hard to find anymore in a point and shoot camera is a view finder, the screen is nice but out in the daylight a screen can get hard to see. The battery life of the camera last longer if the view screen is off and you use a view finder.
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