Single-lens Reflex Definition

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adjective
Of or being a reflex camera in which a movable mirror allows the photographer to see the image in the viewfinder exactly as it will be recorded.
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noun
A reflex camera having a viewing system that allows the photographer to see the subject through the same lens that brings the image to the film or digital sensor.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Single-lens Reflex

  • From single +"Ž lens (contrasted against a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection"), the principle by which the image path is diverted.

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Single-lens Reflex Sentence Examples

  • Semi-professional. They kind of cameras are often called SLRs, which means Single Lens Reflex.

  • Digital single lens reflex cameras, or DSLR cameras, contain more professional features and allow for more artistic control.

  • This will mean choosing between a point and shoot camera or a digital single lens reflex camera.

  • The single lens reflex digital camera works in the same fashion as its older film-based cousins.

  • A single lens reflex (SLR) digital camera uses a single lens to create the image.

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