Intro To SLR Photography

Its not your simple point a shoots. with that said SLR is also not rocket science. 

An SLR camera is a Single Lens Reflex Camera. Light enters through a single lens at the front of the camera, and is reflected on a mirror or sensor in the camera, recording the light. An aperture ring inside the SLR camera adjusts how much light may enter the camera. The shutter speed function on an SLR camera adjusts how long the light may enter the camera. Photography is simply a recording of light on film emulsion, or a digital sensor.

An SLR camera can be made as a film-based or digital-based camera. Both styles accept a variety of accessories, including lenses, flash units, remote controls, filters and tripods or mono pods  These different accessories allow the photographer to change the look of the photo. A compact film or digital camera doesn't have as much versatility as an SLR camera.

The camera and the eye have much more in common than just conceptual philosophy--the eye captures images as does the camera. The anatomy of the camera is more similar to that of a biological eyeball than many would imagine. Similar functions in common give the camera the appearance of a robotic eye. However, though there are many similarities between the two, they are by no means identical.

Cornea and Lens

• The cornea is the "cap" of the eye; it is transparent (like clear jelly) and sits to the front of the eye and has a spherical curvature. The lens of a camera is also transparent (glass) and sits at the front of the body. Like the cornea, the lens also maintains a spherical curvature. The purpose of the corneal and lens curvature is to allow for the eye and camera to view, though not in focus, a limited area to both the right and the left. That is, without the curve, the eye and camera would see only what is directly in front of it.

Iris and Aperture

• The aperture is to the camera as the iris is to the eye. The aperture size refers to how much light is let into the camera to be reflected on the sensor or film As with the human eye, when the iris contracts itself, the pupil becomes smaller and the eye takes in less light. When the iris widens in darker situations, the pupil becomes larger, so it can take in more light. The same effect happens with the aperture; larger (lower) aperture values let in more light than a small (higher) aperture value. The lens opening is the pupil; the smaller the opening, the less light let in.

Focus

• Both the eye and camera have the ability to focus on one single object and blur the rest, whether in the foreground (shallow depth of field) or off at a distance. Likewise, the eye can focus on a larger image just as a camera (greater depth of field) can focus and capture a large scape.

Scope

• As the eye, the camera has a limited scope to take in what is around it. The curvature of the eye and the lens allow for for both to take in what is not directly in front of it. However, the amount of scope that the eye can take in is fixed, while a camera's scope can be changed by the focal length of different types of lenses.

Retina and Film

• The retina sits at the back of the eye and collects the light reflected from the surrounding environment to form the image. The same task in the camera is performed either by film or sensors in digital cameras.

information from Ehow.com



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