Talk:Bridge digital camera

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The most of this article explains what makes bridge digital cameras simpler than DSLR cameras. But what makes them more complex than compact digital cameras? Is there any real definition? JIP | Talk 20:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superzoom

Ive Heard some of these bridge cameras describes as superzooms or "SLR-like" cameras, referencing their large zoom range in relation to other compact/live preview digital cameras, and their shape, often being confused with a small slr on first glance. --58.110.134.169 08:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

This article is pretty muddy; I'll type up a draft of changes sometime soon, but its my understanding that bridge's are NOT superzooms. An easy defining characteristic may be price; superzooms are less than basic dSLRs, whereas bridge cameras tend to be more expensive than their SLR brethren. Also, superzooms are defined by their huge telephoto, and most bridge cameras I can think of don't have huge zoom ratios because their instead equipped with higher quality lenses with less range. DUCK 21:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

good point, but with DSLRs as well you could buy higher quality lenses for them, when your budget allows for it, ie getting Canons Luxury professional lenses, while for a bridge or superzoom, yiur stuck with the lens your cameras has stuck to it --58.110.128.252 10:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Have just added a brief mention that bridge cameras with long focal length zoom lenses are often called superzooms. Perhaps someone should make Superzoom camera redirect here - have already edited Superzoom to provide a link here. 72.145.4.192 07:10, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] prosumer?

I removed the references to "prosumer" from this article, since I don't think it describes accurately a bridge camera. I would typically use the prosumer name to describe a mid range DSLR, like the Nikon D80, Nikon D200, Canon EOS 30D, or Canon EOS 5D, which are typically used by some pros and some consumers. Bridge cameras fall below the strictly consumer DSLRs like the Nikon D40 or the Canon EOS 400D, and would typically not be used by a professional. --rogerd 06:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

I think it's a matter of a sliding scale and the continuously decreasing price of tech. Note that I don't think "prosumer" ever meant "used by some pros", but rather a consumer product that approaches the pro level. At one time, bridge cameras were the prosumer option. They would have bigger and better optics, more manual control, as many goodies as the maker could afford to fit in there, but selling a DSLR to a consumer wasn't an option. Then a few years back, prices really started to dip, the sub-$1000 DSLR showed up, and suddenly "entry-level DSLR" became a phrase and they captured the prosumer niche, leaving bridge cameras as just bigger, nicer P&S cameras -- at least in the minds of some people. Andrew Rodland 22:24, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Ive heard prosumer being used in both contexts (here in Australia), depending if you were talking to a crowd of mostly P&S or bridge shooters, or a crowd of mostly dSLR users, with P&S talking about prosumer as the high end bridge cameras, and SLR users referring to middle range SLRs such as the Nikon D200, Canon EOS 40D...--58.110.133.153 23:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

The main difference between, entry level dSLR's and higher-end-Bridge cameras, being bridge cameras placing emphasis on movie and automatic point and shoot simplicity, while entry-level dSLR's geared more toward expanding creativity, and going above and beyond just 'snapshooting'. --58.110.133.153 23:22, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Id like to make the Point that the Canon Powershot G9 brakes this dslr / Bridge camera barrier of auto control/little manual control, with extensive manual controls and the Ability to shoot RAW files and a Canon Speedlite Hotshoe, in a compact body, (ie not a Slr-like or superzoom body). And that higher end bridges are also marketed towards increasing creativity, in contrast to superzoom high end cameras which are marketed for action and sports shooting. --122.104.43.105 (talk) 20:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

While Bridge P&S's are point and shoots that have some dSLR features, dSLRs are starting to adapt point and shoot features...Live View, In Camera Image Stabilization, lower price, point and shoot looking image processing right out of the caemra, etc. My point is two fold...there are 2 sides to every bridge and something like the Oly E510 could be considered a Bridge dSLR and also that the term Bridge Camera is probably going to be eventually obsolete when used in relation to point and shoots. --70.225.67.181 (talk) 16:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Follow up to above: You will not be able to source them as both terms referring to a category of digital camera were made up on wikipedia. See the original page for Live-preview difgital cameras here to read the following:

The name "Live-Preview Digital camera" (and its acronym LPD) is specific and simple but is just a suggested one here in the hope that it will fill the gap (or that better alternative will replace it here).

This leads me to state that the category and terms were made up on wikipedia and are, at best original research, and should not be used here. --Stujoe (talk) 21:39, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Stujoe may be correct. The term prosumer is used in press and by online camera reviewers in reference mostly to what we are refering to as bridge cameras, though "bridge camera" does see some use in on-line forums and communities. Some of the less technical press also uses prosumer in reference to DSLR's. Canon uses the term prosumer for it's 20/30/40d line, as well as for the G-series [1] (they are the only producers of "bridge cameras" with pro and near-pro lines of DSLR's, though sony has a pro line in the works). I did not find the term "bridge camera" listed on camera manufacturer websites. As a side note, the prosumer term is used heavily in reference to camcorders. NJGW (talk) 22:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Oops on my part! I actually meant my comment to go as a follow up with my comment below asking for a source from the person who reverted my edit about "LPD". Sorry for that.

As far as "prosumer"...it is used more in the dSLR realm than in the bridge camera realm from what I have seen. As far as bridge cameras, I typically see them referred to as "Advanced Digital Cameras" or 'dSLR-like camera" much more often than "Prosumer". --Stujoe (talk) 19:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Live-preview digital cameras", "LPDs" and "Conventionally Generated Live-Preview Digital Cameras"

Can whoever reverted my edit please provide sources for these terms in general use in the digital camera industry and not just on Wikipedia or Wikipedia clones? Thanks. --Stujoe (talk) 01:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)