Camera SLR Guide and Information

Digital Camera SLR

In the modern day of point and shoot digital cameras, it has to be queried as to whether there is any place for the SLR digital camera any more. Well for the fans of SLR rest assured as SLR cameras are still being made by companies such as Canon, Minolta and Olympus to name but a few. As you are already probably aware SLR cameras are bigger but have more options, and for this reason SLR cameras tend to be more expensive than point and click ones. But what exactly is an SLR camera

SLR stands for single-lens reflex. As cameras go, SLR has been the favoured type used by professional photographers for decades. One of the qualities and even an advantage of using a digital SLR camera, is that it is generally easier and faster to shoot and it tends to be more flexible than a normal camera.

Buying Your First SLR for the Amateur Photographer

Ok, so your little pocket camera isn't going to just cut it anymore. Small digital cameras these days can cost as much as some SLR digital cameras on the market. Buying an SLR, although, is a little bit trickier than the standard "point and shoot" type digital cameras you might be use to.

SLR camera breakdown

First of all, SLR (Single Lens Reflex) cameras are not a "point and shoot" type of camera. An SLR camera utilizes an automatic moving mirror system which permits the photographer to see exactly what will be captured by the digital imaging system, as opposed to non-SLR cameras where the view through the viewfinder could be significantly different from what was captured.

The trick to buying a good SLR with a small budget

From intensive and painstaking research, I narrowed down a list of differences between these cameras which actually matters to the average user. Below is a list of things to look for when making you camera selection. Shutter speed.

Optical image stabilizer (OIS). Stabilizer built into lens.

Can take high speed CF memory card.

Red eye reduction mode.

Easy to use menus and physical buttons to use different features of the camera.

AKA pre-settings which allow my SLR to become a "point and shoot" camera.

It can differ by $1K in price if fps is slightly higher comparing two cameras, while all other features are the same. Don't go cheep on the memory because if you have a high speed camera it is only going to take high speed images if it can write them just as fast.