Digital SLR Cameras

Video Transcript

"Now let's talk about digital SLRs. In the past, film SLRs had several advantages over other cameras. First off, you could change the lens, and that's very important because you may want to get a wide angle lens on there. Or you may want to put a zoom lens, or you want to put a portrait lens on there. And it gives you more versatility depending on what kind of pictures you're going to take. And the same thing's true with digital SLRs, you can change out the lens. And you can get generic third party brand lenses, like Tameron and other brands that have specific Canon or Nikon or Olympus or Pentax mounts, and use those too as well. Another thing that digital SLRs have, is the ability to use a mirror. So that when you look through the viewfinder, it will show you exactly what's going to be in the picture. In the old days with film cameras would use the range finder type camera, you didn't see exactly what's going to be in the photograph. You may be off a little bit. And in the old days with film cameras, you know, you might have missed the exact perfect crop. The crop being the perfect area to do a perfect picture. But the thing is, is since it was difficult developing film and it had to be done in complete dark and the prints had to be in complete dark as well too. Generally unless you were a pro, you didn't develop the pictures yourself. Now with new digital levels, you could basically develop and crop your pictures in the camera. So that's a large or not as critical, for having showing you the perfect scene that you're going to be shooting from your viewfinder."