CuriousMe
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Ruu once bubbled...
OK,
This one has been bugging me for a while now - you'll have to excuse my ignorance if this really is a stupid question.. As I understand it, an SLR camera is so called because of the single lens reflex, which (in my mind) means that when you look through the viewfinder, you see what the optics see, rather than what (on a non-SLR camera) the viewfinder sees. All well and good?
Underwater I cannot legitimately look through a viewfinder - on my Olympus Digital I look at the screen to take pictures, which is what the camera "sees". So what is the advantage of a digital SLR underwater? I understand that an SLR camera is going to be aimed more towards enthusiastic amateurs and professionals, thus having better optics and therefore generally capable of taking better pictures, but what specifically does an SLR camera offer me underwater?
Dave, who cannot possibly afford another camera anytime soon anyway, and therefore has no real need to ask this question.
One advantage is that if you already have a SLR film camera, and the assortment of frightfully expensive lenses that go with it, you can use them with your new digital SLR.
Peace,
Cathie