"Autofocus can be turned off if you don't like it." Excepting some lenses themselves have one built-in that you cannot disable. "There's no (electronic) "scre

"Autofocus can be turned off if you don't like it." Excepting some lenses themselves have one built-in that you cannot disable. "There's no (electronic) "screen" involved when you're looking through the viewfinder of a good digital SLR" Tell that to my Sony SLT which has... wait for it... an electronic viewfinder. Oh, and many people find that focusing manually using an EVF is easier than with an OVF because the EVF allows you to magnify an area to clearly see when the subject snaps into sharp focus (assuming no cruddy interpolation,) which is why DSLRs are coming with an electronic viewfinder. "Every DSLR I've used lets you shoot in full manual mode. No sensors involved." Is that including the sensor which is required to take the picture? "I'm not sure what "video" has to do with it, since you can't take video on a (still) film SLR anyway." What do you think is inside a Super-8 camera (which has still film modes?) The exact operating mechanisms, down to the split prism (well, some used a half-mirrored optic) that you would find in a typical SLR. Oh, and then there's this thing called rapid continuous shot (battery assisted, of course) where you can shoot up to 30 shots per second with my old camera, which means... wait for it... VIDEO SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY.