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Digital Camera Basic : Digital Single Lens Reflect (DSLR) Working Process

To know more about digital camera basic, and before we know How Digital Single Lens Reflect (DSLR) Work, let's first we get to know the components that are inside. Inside the DSLR camera, there are several components that's make it to become a single complete camera.
Digital Single Lens Reflect (DSLR) Working diagram


  1. Lens, 
  2. Reflex mirror, 
  3. Shutter, Censor, 
  4. Focusing Screen, 
  5. Condenser Lens, 
  6. Pentaprism, 
  7. Viewfinder
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Digital Single Lens Reflect (DSLR) working process is happening in very limited time, but to make it easier to understand, lets separate it on three step.

  1. When the photographer want to take a picture, the first things he do is look up to the viewfinder on behind the camera. Anythings appears in viewfinders will latter will be the final result of images. Light reflection of the object will pass trough the lens (1) and lead to reflex mirror  (2) the object reflection will be reflected by reflex mirror to the pentaprism (7) and then continued to Viewfinder.
  2. When the photographer pressing the shutter (3) button, the reflex mirror also let the object light trough straight (2)into the censor (4)  and the censor are capturing the object light as long ass shutter open in accordance to shutter speed determined. the censor will stop recording concurrent with the closing of shutter and the reflex mirror returning the object light into the viewfinder.
  3. Next step is the process after censor capture an images and the images will be processed by processor inside the camera. the image will be converted as file that photographer choose, in common is RAW file format.

From the whole of object capturing process, it just happen in very short time.


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