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I was just wondering as a few friends of mine have SLRs and take amazing photos. I just have an ordinary digital camera but I love taking photos. Would it be worthwhile buying a SLR without any photography experience? How difficult are they to use?
Is It Possible To Use A Slr Digital Camera Without Any Photography Experience?
February 26th, 2010 
Posted in Photography 
Tags: Camera and Utilities, Digital, Experience, Photography, Possible, Without
Sure you can start using it in the program mode and let the camera decide all the exposure factors for you, but for ultimate control, you will want to take some classes in photography just to save yourself a lot of grief and frustration.
We all started out with a fully adjustable camera, but it takes time and some good basic understanding of how cameras expose film or sensors.
They are very difficult to use if you don’t learn how to use them at some basic level … once you have developed some advanced skills, you should find using them just an extension of your creative vision.
its rebel xsi, i hope she knew that. Basically, they’re making them easier and easier to use for people with no experience, which is pointless. It’s like giving a kid in karate class a bazooka. If you want to learn to use a dslr the right way, take a class. If you want to get a cheap dslr with a kit lens and then just use auto, portrait, night time, and sports mode, just stick with the point and shoots. Also, if you haven’t taken photo classes, and you haven’t seen as many photos as students, teachers, enthusiasts, and professionals see, you might be too easily impressed by “pretty pictures.” Go on flickr, and you’ll see that like one in 3 pictures made by “artists” are flowers where the background has been converted to black and white. You can’t pick up an slr and just understand why you get the results you get, but you can take a class or get a book and learn very quickly, but if you are serious, you’ll steer away from the canon rebel series. The new ones are small, use poor quality sensors, and are full of frills made to attract people who aren’t actually interested in photography.
It’s not the camera that takes a great photo, it’s the photographer. That being said, you can buy an SLR and use it in program mode and there will be some advantages over a point-and-shoot. Not many, though. I’d say a DSLR would be worth it only if you’re willing to learn some basic photography skills as well as post-processing skills. The learning curve isn’t as steep as some would have you believe but there is one.
I taught myself to use the manual modes on my first SLR. It took a lot of reading and research. A class would have been much easier. But if your friends know how to use manual, then they could be very helpful in teaching you to learn on your own. It just depends on how you learn best and if they are willing to help. A class would probably be the most convenient thing for everyone.
As photoace said, you can continue to use the automodes which most modern SLRs have. But you will get much better results by manually changing the settings.
Sure you can! Just don’t get too advanced an SLR. A Canon 450D/Xsi or 1000D/Xs would be easy to handle even without enough experience. Both would be easy to use at beginner’s level.
im like you…i just had a simple point and shoot and i was interested..i looked in to it and fell in love with the canon rebel SXI..its amazing! you should look in to it..its very simple to use.