What Is A Digital Slr Camera And Is It Worth Its Money?
A digital SLR camera is a digitalized single lens reflective camera that offers advanced controls over how you capture photographs
. In essence a DSLR camera offers superior control over all factors that control the amount of light hitting the sensor viz: shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal distance and custom filters that together help photographers do much more than a simple point and shoot camera. However it comes at a price which may well seem justified if you look at the sheer production value a dslr camera drives in to each of your photograph.
Lets have a look at what all a dslr camera can achieve as opposed to even the best digital camera (point and shoot) failing to do so:
Clear pictures during the night: Even the best digital camera fails to capture clear pictures during the night. This happens since with scarce light you need an aperture that can stay open for long time. Most digital cameras dont offer that flexibility and thus render nighttime photography a no-no option.
Customized White Balance for perfect tints: Who needs computers and post processing software to generate that perfect hues and tints? While even the best digital camera offers you few creative filters, a good dslr camera camera lets you customize the filters and make your own through White Balance manipulation settings.
Blurring out the background: Even the best digital camera fails to impress on this front. There is something about that bokeh in photographs. Since the lenses and consequently the apertures are too small on compact digital cameras, the room for bokeh is very limited. On the other hand, a dslr camera lets you try out different lenses that have big apertures and thus renders some really crisp bokeh for that professional touch!
Exposure bracketing: High Dynamic Range or the HDR pics are a rage now-a-days. A common point and shoot camera falls flats on its face when it comes to capturing multiple exposures. This is where even an entry level DSLR camera rules and delivers impressive HDR image ready exposures.
Faster frames per second: There are times when you want to capture more photographs per second. A faster fps helps you do that. Dslr cameras on general offer better fps than point and shoot digital cameras and thus lets you captures more action for a given time window.
Considering all the aforementioned features and the infinite creative flexibility that these features breed, paying slightly more for dslr camera seems well justified.