What is a difference between SLR camera and any digital camera ???

Question

for example if SLR camera is 10 MP and regular digital camera is 10 MP, what would be the difference, if you take a same snap with both camera?????? and what are the other difference? which one is better. and why SLR is big in size then regular camera?

Answer 1

SLR cameras are bigger for a few reasons. Like Koko points out, one reason is that they have a bigger sensor (which also requires a bigger lens). Another reason is that they have a mirror inside that bounces the image from the lens to the pentaprism to the viewfinder. When you take a picture, this mirror flips out of the way to expose the sensor. All of this takes up quite some space compared to the purely electronic viewfinder in pont & shoot cameras.
This also adds to the dSLR's image quality and responsiveness. Wih a digital SLR, everything is instant. No shutter lag, etc.
Another advantage of a dSLR is that you can swap lenses and use the perfect lens for every job: low light, close ups, sports, portraits, landscapes, etc. Of course, you can also simply use a general purpose lens... as with a point & shoot camera. These lenses are adequate for most stuff but they don't excel in anything.

Answer 2

Well. A film slr camera needs a film, like all cameras were before digital came along. And a digital slr camera does not. They're like digital cameras in that way, except much more complicated to work, have many more different functions and of coarse the quality is so much better. I would definitely suggest the digital one, since you are a beginner. Because with digital you can easily delete the photo if you don't like it, and it also makes it so much simpler to edit them since you just load it onto your computer and then go from there. But with a film you might find yourself wasting a lot of it since you won't be very experienced in getting the right camera angles, shot sizes etc. and it'll be difficult to get the photograph that you want in the first few shots. Or that's what I've found at least.

Answer 3

Most people use megapixels as the first way of comparing cameras.

In fact, it's the worst way.

Megapixels mean almost nothing when comparing cameras, despite what the salespeople want you to think.

Certainly, when comparing a 10MP compact to a 10MP SLR, the SLR will be superior. The size of the sensor has already been mentioned by others here. Bigger sensor = captures more light. Photography is all about light. What else is bigger on an SLR? The lens, perhaps? If photography is all about light, what lens probably captures more light? The small compact lens or the big SLR lens?

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Answer 4

If you read even a little research, the SLR sensor is larger than a Point and Shoot camera. Thats why the SLR is bigger. In terms of imagine quality, the SLR will beat out any point and shoot camera by a long shot. If you want convince the point and shoot is better since they can fit inside a pocket fairly easily.

Answer 5

go to cnet.com
they have some good articles on SLR's