Is using a DSLR camera with lens just like using binoculars?

Celeritas

I use binoculars all the time - birdwatching, wildlife watching, and stargazing. I know how to adjust focus and all that. Is DSLR the same thing? I've never tried using one before.

Answer
a dSLR (with a zoom lens) is more like a monocular but with a wider view. Don't know how to explain it but since the barrel of the lens is usually much thicker, you don't have that tunnel vision common with binoculars.

Look through your binoculars with one eye, it's like that, but the quality and view through them is much better.

If you really want to check out a dSLR with zoom lens (non zoom lenses don't react like binoculars) go to your local camera store and ask to look through some cameras and lenses!

DSLR camera lens question?

BabyMama

Im just curious what the 15mm-55mm what that means when looking at lenses? Other numbers too but still.

Also im interested in a cam but it is only a 3x zoom but if you buy the lenses does that add zoom????

Thanks, im new to the SLR cameras.
It was a sony dslr.... with a 15mm 55mm lense.

Answer
its the focal lenght of the lens.
15mm is the distance between the
the image sensor, or film, and the
lens glass. the lower the number,
the wider the lens and the higher
the number, longer the focal lenght
thus the more zoom. if you divide
the 2 numbers you get the zoom
number. 55÷15=3.6 meaning 3x zoom
power. a 18mm-200mm lens has a zoom
power of 11x

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