Now that you can buy a fully featured digital SLR (dSLR) for five or six C-notes, virtually everyone, including your grandmother, probably knows that SLR stands for single lens reflex. However, your Nana or you on the other hand, might not know exactly what that means. SLR is a camera (film or digital) that uses a system of mirrors and/or prisms to provide clear, bright optical viewing of the image you’re about to take.

So, the dSLR’s are now more or less available in every price range. The prices have been dropping and the pixels have been increasing – it is not at all hard to find a SLR these days that has 10 million pixels at least.

So why do these dSLR’s stand out?

• You have the freedom to switch among lenses. For example, you can switch among an all-purpose zoom lens, a super wide angle lens, an extra long telephoto lens, a close-up lens and all other specialized lenses.This is one the significant features of an SLR. I mean you can’t really change the lens on other cameras – you might be able to add a limited range of zoom lenses to high-end digital camcorders, but nothing more than that.
• Rapid and responsive. Remember when you had to wait two or three seconds before the camera actually took the shot?! Well, those days are well and truly over. Unlike some sluggish point-and-shoot cameras, dSLR’s can take the photo as fast as you can press the shutter!
• Bright images that more or less represent what you see in the final picture. There no washed out colors in your view finder or LCD screen after you take the shot, nor do you have to wonder whether you’ve chopped off the top of someone’s head or guess how much of your image is in sharp focus.

If you’re ready to say goodbye to slow cameras, washed out LCD screens and digital zooms, then it’s time to get started!

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