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What Is Digital SLR?
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SLR stands for Single Lens Reflex. With this technology, an SLR camera allows you to see exactly what the lens sees by using an automatic mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens through the viewfinder. Some DSLR cameras have LCD screens that do not give you a live preview of what the lens sees. More and more vendors are adapting to the ongoing request to have live preview on their DSLR cameras. So before you purchase your next Digital Camera, if Live Preview is what you want, find out first.

Here are a few points on how the Digital SLR camera works:

  • Light passes through the lens and strikes a mirror
  • The mirror reflects the light upware to the focusing screen at an approximately 90 degree angle
  • Light passes through the focusing screen and enters a block of glass called a pentaprism
  • The pentaprism reflects the image so that you can see it in the viewfinder
  • When you take a photo, the mirror flips up and a shutter opens which exposes the digital sensor to light





Digital Rebel for Christmas

Sunday 30 December, 2007 2:27 pm | General | swoopster

Well Christmas came and I got my wish, a Digital Rebel Xti SLR camera. I knew I was going to get it cause I had told the wife that is all I wanted. I just couldn’t open it until Christmas.

Man this is cool but is a lot different than the normal digicam cameras. In fact this is the first camera I ever bought to where I had to actually read the manual.

Going to have to sign up for some classes on the use of it. My friends that already own DSLR cameras says that taking classes is a must cause you get so much out of it.

Now here comes the sad part. Three days after Christmas, I come home from work and my son says he has bad news for me. Yep, he broke the camera. He said we was taking pictures of himself, took the memory card out for whatever reason and when putting it back in, he had bent the pins.

I was so pissed off at him I just kept my mouth shut and didn’t say anything. I know this could happen to anyone but it is a different feeling when someone else breaks your prized possession instead of you.

Well luckily the wife had purchased an extended warranty so now it is in the shop for 6 to 8 weeks. This pissed me off too but what am I to do.

Every time now when I see a nice scene or a cool sunset, I think, damn that would have been a good shot. Oh well, I guess I am just going to have to wait.

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