Added on Sunday 20 January 2008 06:01:49
by MichaelTheMentor
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This is a quick and simple description of how an SLR camera differs from a point and shoot camera. This free lesson was brought to you by: http://www.michaelthemaven.com | Michael's photography school: http://www.michaelthementor.com
@chinh101 The ability to use different lenses (as demonstrated) is huge. SLRs have better controls, bigger (and more color rich) sensors, faster focusing, better customization controls, Flash interfaces, etc. As mentioned by other commenters, this typically results in (much) better images on a consistent basis.
The Brain of ALL Digital SLR Cameras is the CMOS Sensor Pixel Density measured as MP/cm.^2. If you have a larger Pixel , say a 3.1 MP/cm^2 your have a Pro-DSLR APC Sensor. If you have above the 7.0 MP/cm^2 you have an 8.0 or 10.0 MP/cm^2,your Sensor loses enouph Colour Accuracy that it becomes the beginning of a Point&Shoot or even"M"=Manual Setting Digital Camera.At 8 to 10 MegaPixels in a Point & Shoot 32 to 36 MP/cm^2 smaller Pixels Vs.larger Pixel Pro-DSLR of10 Mega-Pixelat Large 2.7MP/cm^2!
@vidcreations Since you have manual control over the , Aperture,Exposure, Flash Compensation & ISO, your Digital Camera is BETTER than just a Point and Shoot, The letter "M"=Manual Control of settings, Makes your Camera much better than any Point & Shoot Digital-Camera. What it Cannot do ie."Fixed Lens NOT interchangeable" is to tell you that you do NOT quite have a DSLR which has a much Larger CMOS Sensor than yours & also has highier larger Pixel Formats for BETTER Colour Accuracy in a DSLR!!
I use a Kodak Z812 IS. Is it a point and shoot? No I can't remove the lens, but I have control of Aperture, Shutter, Exposure, Flash Compensation, and ISO. Yes a DSLR has a different sensor, but Z812 8 mega pixels HD is comparable to a Rebel xti 10.1 mega pixels. I have had 8x10 side by side and no difference. It's not always the camera, but who is behind the lens. I know lots of DSLR owners who only shoot in automatic mode.
@MichaelTheMentor my 10.1 mp digital camera from samsung has alot of control :P its not as mutch as i want D: also u look like terminator... say IL BE BACK!
I've been into P&S for 10 years, recently I switched to SLR (d90) AND IT ROCKS!!! Should have done this earlier......and NO...I'm not going back to P&S cammeras.
@houstonangel34 I have a cannon Sx10IS. I'm came into the world of photography just a year back. Best is to go through the youtube tutorials / cannon sx 20 IS manual book.
Had P&Ss all my life. Recently switched to a DSLR, and the picture quality difference between the top former & entry latter is like night and day; well worth the extra weight... However, PSs are getting better!
@thetttttttttttt a DSLR will have better images in quality wise, because they have a format of photos called RAW that can be sharpened in Adobe lightroom.
even more effective it has a burst mode like 3fps and so on depending on the model.
I have a Canon PowerShot SX20 IS and I am new to photography and this camera. I get everything you said in the video, but I don't get how to actually accomplish this!? Any help or suggestions please? I don't know how to set my aperture or anything ... so confused.
@thetttttttttttt The image sensor on a point and shoot is much smaller than the image sensors that DSLR cameras have. Although they might shoot at the same resolution, the quality of the image on a DSLR is going to be better.
@thetttttttttttt you need megapixels only for large prints ...but as concern the quality everything is up to 3 things : 1 lens 2 sensor quality 3 processor ...so a 12 megapixel point and shoot may be worst than a 4 megapixel point and shoot....as for the point and shoot vs dslr i believe that point and shoot are better in portability and easy-to-use issue everything beyond that is owned by dslrs..
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