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- abbreviationinitialismartsInitialism of single-lens reflex, or clipping of SLR camera.
And images of other cameras came tot him: old-style TV cameras, motion-picture cameras on cranes, tiny digital cameras, Polaroid cameras, SLR cameras, all of them superimposed.
2012, Robert J. Sawyer, Triggers, Toronto: Viking, →ISBN2 more examples
But to be clear, that’s not to say I’m not a photo-taker. I’m no expert, but I dabble. I got my first manual SLR at sixteen, and learned print-making as an unofficial apprentice to the editor of the high-school paper.
2009, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, London: Penguin Books, →ISBNThe imaging unit is not without flaws, and it’s not as powerful as a professional hand-held S.L.R. camera. For example, there’s a noticeable fish-eye distortion in the image that comes from the unit’s really wide vision angle, and you can’t zoom the field of view.
2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times - abbreviationinitialismengineeringInitialism of self-loading rifle.
- USabbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of supplementary leverage ratio.
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SLR. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SLR
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