Thursday 11 August 2011

Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade/Buy a DSLR


Your normal camera may not serve the purpose of shooting professional pictures with high quality. You can look for some good DSLR camera with extreme and enhanced customization features , to discover your creativity. Earlier, SLR cameras were more popular in comparison to DSLR cameras, but with the changing times, DSLRs have refined their identity in photography. Usually, most professional photographers use DSLRs, and recommend it to amateurs as well. For initializing your photography start with one point and try to discover it several traits. Once you familiarized with the profession and are aware about its features, then you can opt for a DSLR or a semi-DSLR camera.


Let’s learn 5 important reasons for upgrading to a DSLR:

1. Speed – rapid and nonstop Shooting
You can DSLRs for speedy clicking of photographs. It is more advantageous for point shoots, as the other cameras may take longer to process the image once you clicked the shutter button. Even for processing of pictures is more fast, there is absolute no delay in the time you click the shutter button and the processing of the image. Their special features are that they quick power-up time, the capacity of concentrating quickly, better shutter speed, easy shutter lag and advanced processing capability.

2. Image Quality and enhanced Sensors
The foremost reason of upgrading a DSLR camera is it’s large image sensors, it is made up of pixels / photodiodes. A photodiode is a picture detector that has the capability of converting light into photon, which are then converted to a brighter image to improve the quality of the picture. These sensors permits to click pictures with larger pixel sizes, in a way high quality pictures. The number of photodiodes that can fit in sensor depends on the sensor’s size. The larger the sensor, the better quality images.

3. Numerous Lens Usability
You can get a enormous choices of shooting patterns, unlike other shoot cameras. DSLR’s doesn’t have any fixed optical zoom, and you can fit various interchangeable quality lenses knowing what are you going to shoot. For example, you may use wide angle lens for landscape photo shoot; whereas, for macros shot you can interchange your lens to macro hassle-free.
Also, DSLRs can be adjusted with special effect filters, flash diffusers, lens extenders remote flashes, lens hoods, and strobe lights.
4. Manual Controls
You can now go for manual control settings options in your image unlike other shoot cameras which have specific limited manual control options. With manual mode you can control aperture, ISO and shutter speed.

5. Shooting in RAW
DSLR’s offer you with shoot in RAW (NEF in Nikon) option, such RAW pictures files have least processed data from image sensor (it is the output from all red, blue and green pixels). Whereas, Point and shoot cameras manage and compress your pictures as JPEGs. In other words, RAW image files are directly out of the sensor.

Nothing is perfect in this world; hence, there are few disadvantages of RAW images. For instance, if you are clicking photos in RAW, then it will slow down your camera. Avoid leaving shutter button while shooting RAW images. You camera may take bit hard, but if you endeavor without RAW, it can with ease can capture the pictures. Another thing, RAW files are bit large in size which will take up a large portion of your memory card. Looking at the average then RAW file nearly comes up to 18MB in size.

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