Paul Le Chien

Appearance of usual film cameras on the market has allowed almost everybody to buy an inexpensive, very desirable camera. However, even the low cost of these cameras cannot reimburse the quality of photography.

But the situation was rescued by the appearance of digital cameras that became a breakthrough in the world of photo equipment. Digital cameras have plenty of benefits over film ones. In the first hand, this is the presence of the screen that makes the application of the camera very comfortable and allows you to view the captured pictures. In the second place, this is the absence of a film that allows making about 1000 photos for one session - film cameras cannot boast it; the limit of the film is 36 photos.

In film cameras if the object is closer than 50cm from the objective the sharpness is lost. The digital cameras have such a function as macro shooting that gives you an opportunity to make photos of objects at a distance of 10-20 cm (and in some cases even 1-2 cm) that will let you photograph even very small subjects.

One more important peculiarity is the ability to connect the camera to the computer. Now the holders of such a camera have the ability to transfer and save photos on their computers or on disk and they also can process photos on the PC and edit them.

A new step in the photographic world has become a digital reflex camera or SLR camera. The quality of the photos is much better and the possibilities of shooting are very different from digital compact cameras. In fact, SLR takes a shot at the professional level. These cameras have changed the attitude of most experienced photographers to digital technology. They open up many opportunities and have a lot of useful, interesting and necessary functions. This makes the digital "SLR" an amateur's dream. At the present time digital SLR cameras have become much more accessible.