Single-lens-reflex camera

SLRs, or single-lens-reflex cameras are the choice of most avid amateurs and professional photographers.

A fully manual single-lens-reflex camera. See more pictures of cool camera stuff.

The DSLR is the great grandchild of the traditional single-lens-reflex camera, named so because the image that the lens sees is reflected by a mirror and prism system in the viewfinder.

Housing a Nikon D1X single-lens-reflex camera solved the file size, digital lag and even focus confirmation issues.

This is caused by the separation between the viewfinder and the picture-taking lens. There is no parallax with single-lens-reflex cameras because when you look through the viewfinder, you are viewing the subject through the picture-taking lens.

and anticipates the position of the subject at the exact moment of exposure. Enables you to take in-focus pictures of moving subjects. Focusing Screen An element between the mirror and pentaprism or pentamirror in a single-lens-reflex camera.

They were superseded by single-lens-reflex cameras with through-the-lens viewing. Most models made were recently discontinued with only Rollei continuing to make the Rolleiflex 2.8 GX Expression. Seagull is another twin lens ...

See also: Focus, Reflex, Single-lens-reflex, Camera, Photograph