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Question:What is an automated reflexive lens?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What is an automated reflexive lens?

There are two main types of cameras - automatic (point and shoot) and SLRs (single lens reflexive). The automatic type usually has a few modes; such as landscape, nighttime, and sports; but generally makes the vast majority of the decisions regarding the photograph for you. A single lens reflexive camera is what you see newspaper photographers carrying. These are generally heavier, more expensive, and able to be operated manually. The name, single lens reflexive, comes from the mirror that redirects, or reflects, the light, the image, coming from the lens into the viewfinder; the mirror flips up when you press the shutter button which exposes the image from the lens onto the digital sensor. When you are using a single lens reflexive camera, you are looking through the lens; whereas in most automatic cameras, the viewfinder is a separate entity.

Do you mean single lens reflexive? Theres that and then theres the automatic, which is just a point and shoot, its not manual, so you dont get to decide how your photograph will come out. A single lens reflex is when you have a mirror what refelx or redirects the light/image that is coming through the lens into the viewfinder and when you press the shutter button the mirror flips up and exposes the image to the digital sensor. With the automatic, the lens is seperate from the viewfinder.

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