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Hello guys. First time here but wish to stay. I was obsessed with the fuji s9000 and as soon as i saw it i thought it was slr. I was pretty sure somewhere it said it was slr. its specs just blew me away and just recently i discoveres on dspreview that its an slr-like and after investigating i found out that its not really slr. but well slr like. haha. I am very disappointed. I saw some 200 - 300 dollar cameras with slr and this s9000 for 600 dollars +/- doesnt have slr. Is slr something i would really want. What am i missing if i get this s9000 as opposed to an slr camera somewhere in the 600 dollar range +/-. Can someone point me in the right direction for slr or tell me if this is the right camera (the s9000) for me? Maybe there some other camera? Ive gotten real good with a sony mavica (the floppy disk camera) only like a4x zoom. and that s9000 with like 10.2 is insane for me. I really wish to pursue photography (digital that is) for a long term and wanna start off with a good camera. Maybe you guys can cheer me up. My birthday is coming uip soon and i wanted to decide on what to get. I dont think my parents will buy it for me though im only 15 but still. I do web design, coding, pc building/modding and run linux and like photography. i wish that s9000 was slr. but maybe clue me in on ths slr like i really dont understand what it is. .... thanks

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ummmm?

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Tried to do quick reading of the review of the S9000. In my opinion, I think the construction, and the principle which you operate the camera is according to the SLR camera however, since it is a closed system, which I am not quite sure what it means at the moment but, I infer it refers to the fact that the lens that the camera comes with when purchased (28-300 mm) is non-detacheable unlike the conventional SLR's. This they said is aimed at preventing dust accumulation on the CCD sensor. Therefore, the only difference would be not being able to change lenses but overall operation and principle it is SLR.

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hmmm. thats neat. um trheres nothing elser that would be to my benifit if i were to get slr? i heard something about how slrs dont have that seperate view finder rather you would look straight through the lens? is that right? and color etc.. is it any better? thanks

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SLR's have an LCD screen in the back also. Only thing is that when you are going to capture the image, the LCD will not function, you have to look through the viewfinder much like the film SLR. After capture you can view the image using the LCD display panel. However, I was not able to check if the viewfinder is also LCD because some digital cameras although they have a viewfinder, it does not really allow your eye to look through the lens but the viewfinder is just a small LCD like the Fujifilm digital SLR but Canon digital SLR does not have the small LCD screen inside the viewfinder but rather really allows you to look through the lens. However, the real function of wanting to look through the lens is that you want to see exactly what the lens sees and will project onto the sensor for capture. Much of the point and shoot digital cameras do this by allowing the user to view the image to be captured through the LCD panel at the back so in this sense. It is much like using an SLR too. However, SLR's have some features that are not available to point and shoot. Depending on your purpose and type of subject you want to shoot SLR might be better than point and shoot but it may also be vice versa.

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