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Buying advice.

Compact Digital Camera or SLR (Single Lens Reflex Camera)

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Buying advice

Digital cameras
Product group
Digital cameras
Items analyzed
139
Date
22. 05. 2012
Data source
QualityZoom
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Nowadays most digital cameras are compact cameras, which are handy, way smaller and cheaper than SLR cameras. Compared to the SLR, the compact camera have less functions, and they often have less picture quality. Moreover, the SLR has a bigger sensor and better optics.

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Glossary

Digital Compact- or Search cameras

In Digital Compact- or Search Cameras with built in lenses the motiv is displayed on a control monitor at the back of the camera before the picture is taken. Some compact cameras allow for the motiv to be aimed at through an aditional finder.

Bridgecamera

The bridgecamera is a hybrid of a compact- and a reflex camera (here the motif is diverted from the zoom lens across a mirror and displayed on a matt screen). It has a fixed zoom lens, an electrical finder and often a superzoom-lens.

Digital SLR Cameras

Digital reflex cameras (D-SLR) are used, instead of with built-in lenses, with various exchangable lenses. The motif is aimed at through the finder and displayed only after the picture has been taken on the control monitor. Very few models pose the exception: They show the motif in form of a preview before the image is taken.