What's So Special About SLR Digital Cameras?

The craze nowadays is digital cameras. Many electronic retail stores have a plethora of digital cameras just sitting out on display, waiting for a customer to pick them up. But many people forget about the other type of cameras out there. Many professional photographers are not interested in regular digital cameras. There are many different varieties to digital cameras, and many of them are geared towards a more professional crowd. One of the popular brands among professional photographers is the SLR cameras.

SLR cameras, or Single-lens reflex cameras, are cameras that usually uses a semi-automatic moving mirror system which allows the photographer to see exactly what will be captured by the camera by the film, used when the SLR cameras first came out, or by the digital imaging system. The SLR cameras are mainly used by paparazzi photographers, or photographers during a photo shoot for magazines and websites.

Many of the older SLR cameras only used film. Up until the 90's, the SLR cameras that used film would be the most technologically advanced cameras created. During the 90's is when the the creation of the digital camera took place and took over the world of cameras and photo taking. It was only a matter of time before the SLR camera replaced its film canister for a little memory card.

Digital SLR cameras, or DSLR cameras, use a mechanical mirror system, which differs from the moving mirror system of the regular SLR cameras, and a pentaprism. A pentaprism is a five-sided, reflecting prism that deviates the light from the lens of the camera to the optical viewfinder on the back of the camera. DSLR cameras are the norm when it comes to professional photographers. There are different attachments for the lens that you can purchase separately that will make the picture quality better, and, depending on the type of photo shoot you are doing, might work better than using the regular lens.

The main different, besides from the picture quality, between regular digital cameras and SLR cameras is definitely the price. Regular digital cameras can cost from $80-$200, while SLR cameras start at $300 and can go up to over $1000. But if your a professional photographer, it might be worth it to give up the extra money for a much better camera, that can give you a much better picture.

Click here to see some examples of SLR cameras.

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The New Blackberry Torch

Research in Motion, the Canadian company who are famous for being the masterminds behind such phones as the Blackberry Tour and the Blackberry Storm, have produce a new Blackberry phone that is similar, yet different to all the other Blackberries. The newest Blackberry to hit the market is the Blackberry 9800, better known as the Blackberry Torch. The Torch, which came out on August 12th, is not available yet in Bahrain.

The Blackberry Torch has everything that Blackberry users have come to love about their phones. The Torch still has the Blackberry Messenger, the touch pad, instead of the trackball, and it has a traditional touch screen. The Blackberry Torch also has the brand new Blackberry 6 operating system which allows you to customize your home screen, and stay in the social networking circle, without even signing in to your Twitter or Facebook. For example, if you wanted to put all of the menus or apps that you use the most on the first page, well now you can do that with just the drag and drop the app to the place you want it to appear on your home screen.

The main difference with this Blackberry is the Torch is a slider phone. The Torch still has the traditional Blackberry keyboard, but it is covered up by the slide up touch screen. The Torch also has a 5 MP camera, which is great for taking pictures or recording videos. The new slide look to the Blackberry can be compared to that of the Palm-Pre, but the features of the Torch are already being compared to those of the iPhone 4 from AT&T, the EVO 4G from Sprint and the Samsung Galaxy from T-Mobile.

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