What are the differences of a digital and a SLR camera?

since everyone else has given you the actual differences, I'll just make it plain and simple in a non-photography way.

SLR cameras are the big cameras sometimes with a long lense that uses film.

digital cameras use pixels and intake the colors differently than SLR cameras.

SLR is single lens reflex, you can get a dSLR which is digital and SLR, but mainly an slr are the cameras you see that you can change the lenses on the front and the settings of the photos youre taking. Most regular digital cameras are just point and shoot, which are exactly like the name.

SLR's that arent digital take 35mm rolls of film.

A digital camera captures images through electronic dots called "pixels". Put enough pixels together, stand back and it looks like a picture. Electronic images are then stored as data on electronic media such as disks or flash memory. So in short, a digital camera refers only to the way the image is caputred and stored. "SLR" stands for "Single Lense Reflex", meaning that the operator looks OPTICALLY through the same lense as the camera when taking the picture. Many older cameras had a lense for the operator to look through and a separate lense for the camera. There was a problem with paralax, focus, lense length and image composition. SLR camras solved those problems by providing a glass plate upon which an image was focused through an arrangment of mirrors. When the operator of a SLR camra pushed the shutter release, the mirror moved out of the way and the shutter exposed the film. SLR cameras also allow the operator to change lenses allowing for long shots with telephoto lenses, wide angle shots, ultra-wide angle shots and even mounting to astronomy quality telescopes. The same method is used in some high-end digital cameras

SLR cameras require 35mm film to take photos and the digital records images on a memory card. Films need to be processed via chemicals that you need to wait for, and the digital images can be viewed immediately either through your computer and printed out on your printer.

There are different types of camera's in photography.There are film based SLR camera(one roll of film is 24 exposure roll and 36 exposure roll)(you capture the moment) and digital SLR(which is more storage of photos you taken depending on memory size, easier to connect and transfer photos onto computer)(Digital SLR you can change the photo using computer software to enhance photo)(Digital photography you can delete a shot if your not happy with it).SLR is Single Lens Reflex and you have a lens that allows you to see what your getting through viewfinder.The lens in a SLR is changable(you can have wide angle lens, telephoto lens).You can buy different lens for SLR camera.SLR cameras you can buy tripod to prevent camera shake. There also compact small cameras digital which just have one lens(zoom) and less functions than a SLR camera which is better to take photos.You also can buy filters for lens of SLR cameras.Its best if you do a beginners photography course so you can share your photos taken with others and you can go in group with teacher and have more practise in photography.Photography is about capturing light and time of day.