What is a DSLR Camera?
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- 28 Sep 2022
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If it seems like there’s more new photography technology than what you can keep up with, you are probably correct. However, don’t let that deter you from learning the industry standards and terms within it. One of those terms that you’ll likely come across is the digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera, which has been the leading type of camera for still photography throughout the past decade.
What Does DSLR Mean?
“Digital single-lens reflex” isn’t exactly the easiest term to understand off the bat. However, it makes more sense when you break down each part.
Digital: This implies that the camera is not film-based and that images are captured digitally on an image sensor instead of using photographic light-sensitive film. The film-based counterpart (which came before the DSLR) was called a single-lens reflex, or SLR, camera.
Single-Lens: This term is somewhat self-explanatory, and it means that only one lens is used on the camera. The lens is used in taking and previewing the image. This is opposed to a twin-lens reflex camera, which essentially uses one lens to take the picture and one lens to view the scene before the picture is taken. Read More...
