Bridge cameras (Page 2): Ref. Not quality of DSLR. Have to disagree. I am a Nikon DSLR owner. Previously had a Panasonic bridge camera. An awful lot of my pics were of equal or even...

tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

Ref. Not quality of DSLR. Have to disagree. I am a Nikon DSLR owner. Previously had a Panasonic bridge camera. An awful lot of my pics were of equal or even better quality.

Shutter Bugger

This is a typical "bridge" camera, I bought it to replace my Nikon FM film camera when I failed to resist the Pixel Fairies.

The Fujifilm proved extremely reliable & versatile and took/takes many satisfying images.

However I regret selling my FM a lot... even though
I acquired much more sophisticated Nikon film SLRs (an F801s and an F90X)

Kanonmeister Loc: Los Angeles

Beard43 wrote:

Please excuse my ignorance, but I never heard the term "Bridge Camera" until I joined the UHH. I've been taking photos for the past 40 years, and recently converted to digital. Thank you for your patience.

Did you not even bother to Google this?

First choice. Here's what sprung up instantly for me:

"Bridge cameras are cameras which fill the niche between the single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs) and the point-and-shoot camera. They are often comparable in ...
‎One fixed but versatile lens - ‎LCDs and EVFs as principal ..."

One Camera One Lens Loc: Traveling

Beard, a Bridge Camera is just that, you stand on a bridge and photograph what ever it is you see from the bridge, I don't see the problem......................................lol

Shutter Bugger

One Camera One Lens wrote:

Beard, a Bridge Camera is just that, you stand on a bridge and photograph what ever it is you see from the bridge, I don't see the problem......................................lol

Naaah,

it's a camera used to take pictures of bridges not pictures from bridges... dont you know anything?
:lol:

One Camera One Lens Loc: Traveling

I'm sorry shitterbug, I guess I messed up, sorry........lol

BuckeyeBilly Loc: St. Petersburg, FL

Beard43 wrote:

Please excuse my ignorance, but I never heard the term "Bridge Camera" until I joined the UHH. I've been taking photos for the past 40 years, and recently converted to digital. Thank you for your patience.

Beard,

The bridge camera is like a DSLR except that it has a non-removable zoom lens that can typically range from 24mm to 1000mm or 1200mm, with many cameras' ranges anywhere inbetween. For example, I have the Fujifilm HS50 that has a lens ranging from 24mm all the way to 1000mm, great for taking moon shots. It has a plethora of pre-programmed settings but it also has aperture-priority, shutter-priority, and manual settings, making it very close in function to a DSLR. It also reproduces the award-winning Fuji Velvia color and also is ready to shoot as soon as you switch the "on" button---amazingly fast, providing you with a much better chance of capturing that scene that is unfolding before your eyes.

Alois

Some bridge cameras like Fuji Xs 1 are actually quite good.
Bridge cameras aren't much simpler than SLRs in operation, but will accommodate you with good quality fixed zoom lens.

dave.speeking Loc: Brooklyn OH

Beard43 wrote:

Thank you for your response. I presume that means that my Canon S5IS is considered a bridge camera? I now shoot with a Nikon D200.

I lent the Canon to my granddaughter to shoot her baby.

What?

David Morrison

Beard43 wrote:

Please excuse my ignorance, but I never heard the term "Bridge Camera" until I joined the UHH. I've been taking photos for the past 40 years, and recently converted to digital. Thank you for your patience.

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I'm coming in late here with my 10c, but like some of the others, I always understood the term bridge to mean filling the gap between p/s and slr.
However, I do think that things have become quite blurred with the popularity of mirrorless cameras, which are not SLR in the conventional sense, nor are they point and shoot.
However, being lens changeable, and capable of quite high quality images etc ( I'm thinking of the likes of the Fuji XT1, and Olympus OMDE1 ), they are really in a new category.Point and shoot were always mirrorless anyway, from what my limited understanding is.
Certainly, for these two examples anyway, they are not in the same price bracket of what has usually been thought of as professional SLR.
The term slr , single lens reflex, could have been dropped a long time ago, since for quite a few decades now,most cameras of all shapes and sizes have had only one lens, even though the reflex aspect has stayed in slr style cameras...D.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Beard43 wrote:

Please excuse my ignorance, but I never heard the term "Bridge Camera" until I joined the UHH. I've been taking photos for the past 40 years, and recently converted to digital. Thank you for your patience.

Bridge is a term used as in "it bridges the gap between a point and shoot and a DSLR with interchangeable lenses. But the second post is also accurate.

picturedude Loc: Yosemite natl. park, Ca.

I didn't know what it was either, but I just figured I'd cross that BRIDGE when I came to it!!!!!

(Sorry, couldn't resist!!!!)

wlgoode Loc: Globe, AZ

Beard43 wrote:

Please excuse my ignorance, but I never heard the term "Bridge Camera" until I joined the UHH. I've been taking photos for the past 40 years, and recently converted to digital. Thank you for your patience.

A Bridge camera is meant a Bridge between DSLR and P&S.

Poison Ivey Loc: Mtn Brook, AL

Beard43...you LOST your Canon to your daughter!

Aaron Braganza Loc: Sydney, Australia

amehta wrote:

I think "compact bridge" is an oxymoron. :-)

I would call the RX-100 an "advanced compact". That category has been around for decades too.

I use the RX100 Mark2 - on my daily walks - one of the best on the current market. Some times an equal match to my D7100