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Thread: Not to Sound Like an Idiot, But.....A Basic Question |
    
Bronze Member Username: Txstars15
Dallas,
Texas
USA
Post Number: 11
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Monday, April 10, 2006 - 08:57 pm: |
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I have two digital cameras and a good Minolta print film SLR. What exactly is the format of a digital SLR? Is it essentially just a digital camera with a larger body to accomodate different lenses like my old Minolta? Would the only benefit then be interchangeable lenses?
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Gold Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 7398
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Monday, April 10, 2006 - 09:47 pm: |
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Actually it is an SLR with a digital sensor being used instead of regular film.
It is like the instamatic camera versus the SLR camera. So it is not just a digital camera with a larger body...etc, etc.
Benefits would be a bigger sensor and better resolution as opposed to a regular point and shoot. Better controls, faster response, better sensitivity to low light. There are so much more but, really, you have to do some more reading on the subject.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech.htm |
Silver Member Username: Claudermilk
Post Number: 299
Registered: Sep-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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The main functional difference between a film SLR and a digital SLR is there is a sensor where the film would be. You even still have the moving mirror and mechanical shutter. Obviously there's a bunch of support electronics to run that sensor that sits where al lthe film-handling mechaniscs goes, but in the most simple terms that's realy it. The first DSLRs actually used film SLR chassis as a basis.
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