Do I have to look into the view finder?

[gryphonslair99]

"I am curious, what "Digital P/S DSLR" are you using"

i think u are kinda wondering how i can refer to my dslr as a point and shoot.. ??

well the definitions of the term seems to have changed over the last few years.. we have just about reached the point where entry level dslrs are being refered to as point and shoots..

read some tongue in cheek humour into my description of my pentax k100d..

phil askey recently in his review of the new nikon d40 refered to it as the perfect point and shoot dslr.. most dslr users seem to refer to anything that does not have an interchangeable lens as a point and shoot..

it seems entry dslrs and complex pro-sumer/bridge cameras have about met in the middle.. all in danger of being called point and shoots by somebody.. he he

to be honest i think its a term that has lost its meaning and all cameras with full automatics can be called point and shoots if the owner wishes to use them in that mode.. either that or people should stop useing the term so loosely..

it used to mean a camera that didnt have manual controls.. now it seems to mean anything below a certain but continually rising level in the camera food chain..

but in the past i have found the lcd screen to be usefull for arms length.. overhead or ground level shooting.. thow i take your point as regards the negative side of them..

i am a bit anti post processing as regards the negative side of what i call real photograhy.. used to excess as i think it is being used i think thats one of the worse things to happen to digital photography..

hoping to have satisfied your curiosity..

trog

That helps a bit. To me it was kind of like stating you were driving a Harley Davidson Pickup Truck. They are both vehicles, but I have yet to see one in the same. (Just watch, there will be a biker photographer that reads this thread and will build one for Sturgis next year.)

Post processing is pretty much a must in with a DSLR, especially if you are shooting in RAW. Having spent years in a darkroom processing film, those prints people got were post processed as well. To give the best color, contrast, hue, etc.

I can understand what you mean though about over processing with digital. I too have seen stuff that I just don't like. The saturation that some people like couldn't be sustaine by the Energizer Bunny. If there is a warm glow in the room after the lights are off, then that is just too much processing. But then I have seen stuff that was done to negative prints that was overblown. I chalk it up to some people having different tastes from my own. At least I don't have to look at it or print it. :biggrin5:

Since I have never been a P&Ser I guess I am at a loss as to using the LCD screen and my DSLR was only set to one of the (god I can't believe I am going to use this term) Point and Shoot modes, when it came out of the box. I immediatly switched it to Manuel before I even loaded the battery. I have just begun to get into Macro photography and understand about tough viewing angles, but I am looking into one of the right angle viewfinder attachments from either Canon or Hoodman. Unless someone else knows of a good one from another manufacturer.

Thanks for the explenation. At least I will not have nightmares tonight of Canon coming out with a 1Ds Mark III with a flip out lcd screen and a video recording mode.:biggrin5: :biggrin5:

[danag42]

The whole purpose of a reflex camera is that you're looking directly through a lens. In a twin-lens reflex, there are two identical lenses, one over the other. The upper one is for focusing and composing and the lower one for taking the photo.

The whole idea of a single lens reflex (SLR) camera is that you compose and shoot through the same lens. Therefore, composing on the LCD defeats the whole purpose of having a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex).