THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
There’s no doubt that if you’re already familiar with the basic controls of a conventional film SLR—by which we mean the aperture, shutter speed, shooting modes, and so on—then the switch to a DSLR should be relatively painless. If you’re moving up from a digital point-and-shoot, you may have more to learn in terms of technique, but you’ll be familiar with much of the “vocabulary” that is used in digital photography.
The world of digital SLRs (DSLRs) is a rapidly evolving environment. It seems almost inconceivable that it was only in 2000 that Canon launched its flagship DSLR, the D30, which featured a 3.1-megapixel sensor—a ...
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