just wondering what camera eveyone has. i'm thinking about getting a new one.
i want SLR but I still want to have video recording.

 

sony W-1 5.1MP

 

No such thing as a digital SLR that does video. An SLR is designed so the viewfinder looks directly through the lens. It does this with a mirror placed in front of the shutter and film, or image sensor in the case of digital. Most of the time the mirror is in its down position. The light comes in the lens, hits the mirror, gets reflected up into the pentaprism and then you see it through the viewfinder.



When you take a picture, first the mirror flips up out of the way to let the light go through to the shutter. This blacks out the viewfinder. Then the shutter opens and exposes the film, or image sensor.

For a digital SLR to do video you would have to set up the shot in the viewfinder, then when you started filming you would have to quickly start looking at the LCD to continue seeing what you're looking at.

Aside from this, digital SLR image sensors are different than point-n-shoot digital camera sensors. They're larger and much higher quality given the same pixel count as a point-n-shoot. This is especially apparent when you go to a higher ISO (light sensitivity) setting. Pretty much anything but the lowest one or two settings on a point-n-shoot will give you all kinds of gross ugly noise in the image. There are also plenty of point-n-shoots that have noise even at their lowest ISO setting so there's no way to avoid it. Most digital SLR image sensors are designed only to work for still pictures, not provide a constant video feed. So even if there was no viewfinder issue you still wouldn't be able to do video.

There is one digital SLR (which one does this escapes me at the moment) that has a translucent portion in its mirror, which lets you use the LCD as a rudimentary black and white viewfinder for up to 30 seconds at a time, the camera's longest shutter speed. But that's about all the video you'll get out of a digital SLR for the time being.

There is a way, in theory, to get video from a dSLR, but it hasn't been built yet and it's kinda technical so I don't really feel like getting in to that.

I personally have a Canon EOS A2 film SLR. For the most part it has better picture-taking features than any of the current crop of consumer-level digital cameras. Plus with a 4000 dpi film scanner I can get a 19 megapixel image from 35mm film. So I'm not gonna switch just yet. I do have a Canon S200 digital ELPH for carrying in a pocket and taking quick snapshots when I want to load them directly into the computer.

 

uhh...i think he said he wants a SLR.. "BUT" he wants video recording...therefore it wouldn't be a SLR










I have the Canon G3. (aka. G5 and G6 as updates) Almost as close as a SLR with full manual functions minus the lens. ....and it has video recording too

 

 

some sony DSC crap.

i NEED an SLR camera for my photography class.

 

Nikon 5K. For the price I paid for it years ago, I could buy an SLR today. :happysad:

 

I just picked up one of these....










Sorry. I know you all take your photography seriously. I was just trying to have a little fun...

 

DSC-P200

 

nikon 4600