SLR

Calling an SLR camera, an SLR camera is a misnomer. Because, it gives undue importance to the SLR feature, while not mentioning the rest. The SLR part of an SLR camera only adds about 10% of the value to a real professional camera.

I mean, lets face it. What does the SLR functionality really do? It makes your optical view finder look through the camera's lens. When the shutter button is clicked, the lens flips, and lets the image fall on the film (or sensor matrix, in the case of a digital camera). And we have our picture. The SLR capability eliminates the user and the camera looking through 2 separate view finders. Thats it.

But there are a lot other things that sets a professional camera apart from a point and shoot, apart from the SLR function. A professional camera lets you adjust a lot of parameters that would be set automatically in a point and shoot. Features such as lens zoom and focus, aperture and shutter speed, exposure locking, exposure bracketing, depth of field, metering, etc. And its all these manipulations that allows space for our creativity and brings out those awesome snaps. The SLR function alone cannot do that. So there is more to an SLR camera than just SLR. Thats all I'm sayin'.