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Someone's going to have to define for me what people mean by "SLR" in the digital age. Because by the definition I know, my camera, which apparantly is not considered an "SLR" has the distinguishing charactersitic of traditional SLR.
The definition I know for "SLR" (Single-Lens Reflex) is that an SLR camera is one in which the image you see through the viewfinder is the same image you that the lens sees. As opposed to a stnadard camera where the viewfinder is separate from the lens, but slightly offset. The advantage to an SLR being that you see exactly what is in the frame of the lens, rather than being off by a hair.
Traditionally, this has been achieved using prisms to split the image. But with the advent of digital, that's no longer necessary. The image that's shown on the LCD view screen of a digital camera is taken directly from the lens, (as evidenced on my camera when the automatic lens cover gets stuck half-open, leaving weird black shadows at the edge of my view screen).
So it that's no longer the distinguishing characterstic of an "SLR" camera, what the heck does it mean?
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