CharismaticMillie

Megapixels are important when you want to blow a picture up very large. With a nice DSLR, 6 megapixels is just as good as 10, unless I plan to enlarge photos to be a mural

ToyPoodle46

What's a DSLR?...

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CharismaticMillie

A DSLR camera is a digital single-lens reflex camera. When you look through the viewfinder of an SLR (single lens reflex) camera, you are seeing straight through the lens. When you look through the viewfinder of a Point and Shoot, what you are seeing is slightly different than what the lens is seeing.

I am still learning a lot about these types of cameras because I have always had point and shoots. These cameras are bigger and bulkier, have removable lenses and you can attach different types of flashes. You can manipulate the controls and take better photographs with DSLRs. DSLRs are pricier, but once you learn how to use them, the results are amazing!

I attached a photo of two different cameras. The smaller camera is a Canon Point and Shoot, the larger camera is my Nikon DSLR camera.

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ToyPoodle46

Oh i get it...

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flyingduster

Yup, the main difference I pick up on is the fact they have those big removable lenses [that you MUST have one of, but you can different ones suited for different things too], where as a 'point & shoot' has the built in lens that 'pops out' when you turn the camera on and is effectively ready to point and 'shoot' straight away. A DSLR has full manual controls that generally need a fair bit of tweaking to get the right lighting and aperture etc etc before shooting the pic.

Basically think of a paparazzi with the huge lens, or a professional photographer with a bag full of different lenses and they twiddle the lens itself a fair bit vs your pocket camera.

Before digital cameras were around, they were simply called SLRs. They're now DSLRs simply cos the D is for digital.

ONE DAY I will get myself a DSLR. One day.

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