The Digital SLR Difference
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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 hard to find a SLR these days that has 10 million pixels or less. So why do these dSLR’s stand out?

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