| If you have been toying with the idea of buying a | | | | possible on a compact camera and lenses open up |
| Digital SLR camera, the market is ready for you. | | | | a whole new world. As well as lenses the use of |
| Over the last five years the price of digital SLRs | | | | filters on those lenses can add a professional |
| have decreased considerably and the quality of | | | | touch not possible with your point and shoot. |
| the pictures has increased in the same proportion. | | | | Similarly accessories such as proper flash units |
| Digital SLR camera photography takes your | | | | and stable tripods can only help improve the |
| photos to the next level, beyond what you can | | | | conditions in which your photos are taken. |
| do with a compact camera. It will provide you all | | | | Your photos taken in challenging conditions are |
| you need to unleash your creativity and control | | | | likely to be better with a Digital SLR. The lens size |
| the end results. While a SLR may increase the | | | | means they cope better in low light conditions and |
| probability your photos are good it still depends on | | | | are able to process fast shoots much better. |
| the person pushing the shutter button. | | | | Speed is particularly important if you want to |
| If you are undecided the following features of an | | | | photograph sporting events, animals and |
| SLR may help understand what a digital SLR can | | | | sometimes children. |
| offer you. | | | | And what you see through the viewfinder of |
| With a digital SLR camera photo composition is | | | | your SLR will be the picture you get. This is |
| entirely within your control. You can choose to | | | | because the image being captured to your digital |
| shoot in automatic mode or choose to take total | | | | media card is reflected via a mirror through to |
| control of the creative areas of f-stops and | | | | the viewfinder. With a compact camera your |
| aperture selection. As you become more | | | | viewfinder is the area the camera is pointing |
| confident and capable you will be able to push | | | | towards, but not necessarily the image that will |
| your camera to the limit. | | | | be produced. |
| The beauty of having a digital SLR is that you can | | | | So by choosing a Digital SLR camera your photo |
| experiment to your hearts content. The pictures | | | | creativity is likely to improve. There is always a |
| cost nothing to develop and you can evaluate the | | | | place for compact cameras and even |
| photos you have taken on your computer screen, | | | | professionals carry a point and shoot for various |
| printing them out if you want. | | | | circumstances. But any photograph is only as |
| The digital SLR will also allow you to get the | | | | good as its composition, and a fancy camera |
| benefit of a good zoom lens or specialist lens such | | | | won't make a bad photograph good - but it might |
| as fish-eye or portraits lenses. This is not usually | | | | make it better looking. |