SLR Cameras  

Hey i have an SLR (Nikon FM10) and a digi-cam but i love taking pix with the SLR and as you said the pictures are really beautiful.

The concept is very very simple - f-stop or the aperture determines the amount of light the camera is allowing, so that the negative is exposed. The usual lenses have f-stops that start from 3.5 to 11.5 or so. However, there are lenses that range from less than 3.5.

The concept is very simple - the lower the number(i.e 3.5f, 5f)the bigger is the opening of the aperture, the bigger the number (11.5f, 13.0f)the smaller the opening. So if you have a bigger aperture opening more light gets onto the film and the smaller opening allows less light.

If you are shooting at a low light a bigger opening can be of help (say 5 or 3.5) but if there is too much light you will have to reduce the opening to 11.5 or so.

hope this is of some use to you. Look for f-stops in photography websites. :)

yeah! slrs are way better than P&S. i can be in control over it. i hope i can have one though. but as of now i just use my p&s so pictures. f-stops is the one responsible on which field to be focus. like if you want that the subject will stand to you use the smallest f-stop. what will happen is that the subject that you are focusing will look very sharp while the others are very blur.

SLR cameras have are more complicated as compared to those digital cameras. But I was wondering if its DSLR or just SLR you are talking about. Anyway, you can certainly do a lot of things with SLR or DSLR as compared to the point and shoot digital cameras. I would be quite long to explain everything here. I have started learning photography on my own. I am not an expert so I did a lot of research online on how to use it effectively. I recommend you go to youtube and search "digital photography one on one. There are a lot of episodes on this and it discuss a lot of things in using SLR or DSLR which you may find useful. Try to check it out.