If you’re trying to become a professional photographer you might want to ditch the old camera and buy yourself a brand new SLR. Don’t worry about choosing the wrong camera because below you’ll find a great set of instructions that you’ll find very useful while shopping.

SLR stands for single-lens reflex and if you’re ready to make the big step toward it a 35mm will help you along the way. This is the best camera format for high-quality images and it’s way better than wide-angle lenses, macro lenses or even zoom lenses.

By consumer choice, I mean of course what are the people buying. We as a consumer society, vote with our dollars, as just about any product that finds favor with the masses will continue to make it’s manufacturers rich.

Before buying a SLR you should decide if you want manual or auto focus (AF or MF). If you want AF you should know a few important details about these cameras: The electronics can let you down when you need them the most. The battery consumption is very high. The AF lenses can be pretty difficult to focus by hand especially when you want to switch to manual focus.

One thing I’ve complained a lot about in the past, is slow shutter response in many compact cameras. It’s not really an issue with the A590. Surprisingly, for someone used to the speed of an SLR that’s quite a statement. If you practice a little bit, and get the hang of manually focusing your photos you’ll experience an even faster shutter performance speed.

You’re in for a real treat, if you’re the type of photographer that enjoys fiddling around with the manual modes on your camera. The A590 shows off much improved features over previous Canon Powershots in the A series. Including, a light meter, that makes suggestions for the ideal exposure settings. The resulting exposure, can be tweaked to the adjustment of the aperture and shutter speed. The M mode, is also much improved, in large part by the light meter.

A few great manufacturers like Nikon, Pentax and Olympus use few electronics when making a manual focus SLR and this will help you better understand how all this works.

The A590 doesn’t make the same mistake as many other compact cameras, and sacrifice the optical viewfinder for a larger LCD. So even if you’re in a situation, where using the LCD is not a good option the viewfinder will come in handy.

You won’t spend a fortune on batteries with this camera. According to the manual, with a couple of good rechargeable AA’s you should get up to 500 shots before during a recharge. All in all, a very good value for the money.

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