Digital Slr Cameras & Photography for Dummies
Chapter One
The Digital SLR Difference
In This Chapter
* Discovering why digital SLRs are the next big thing
* Finding out how your shoot will change - big time!
* Exploring dSLR advantages
* Looking at downsides? What downsides?
Today, the digital SLR (or dSLR) has become such a hot item among people
who take pictures that virtually everyone, including your grandmother,
probably knows that SLR stands for single lens reflex. However, your Nana - or
you for that matter - might not know precisely what single lens reflex means.
It's a camera (film or digital) that uses a marvelous system of mirrors and/or
prisms to provide bright, clear optical viewing of the image you're about to
take - through the same lens that is used to take the picture.
The key thing to know is that a dSLR is a very cool tool for
taking photos electronically.
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