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Bronze Member Username: Txstars15Dallas, Texas USA Post Number: 11 Registered: Mar-06 | 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? Thanks for any insights you can offer! |
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Gold Member Username: Project6Post Number: 7398 Registered: Dec-03 | 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 |
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Silver Member Username: ClaudermilkPost Number: 299 Registered: Sep-04 | 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. |