But when it comes to photographing snow. The APS(Auto Point and Shoot) digital cameras which (all most all people seem to own one) gives more accurate color of the snow because by default it is already set (from factory) at at least half a stop (or one stop in many cameras) overexposed. If you shoot the snow with SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera at the exposure reading of 'o'(zero) you will get snow that looks grey rather than white. It is not the fault of SLR cameras because becaue it sees show as light grey rather than white. If the APS cameras would be in the same trouble had they not been set slightly overexposed at factory setting. Thanksfully in SLR cameras you can always overcome that grey snows amd make the snow apper white by manually overexposing by one stop of light either by using one step slower sutter speed or opening up the aperture one stop of light.