Electronic Digital Camera Terms To Recognize

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It will help while studying to use your new digital camera also to understand what a few of the more common terms mean. Below you will find many of these common terms defined..

Automatic Mode – An environment that sets the focus, exposure and white-balance automatically.

Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode – a series of pictures taken one after another at quickly timed intervals with one press from the shutter button.

Compression – The process of compacting digital data, images and text by wiping out selected information.

Zoom – Cropping and magnifying the center a part of a picture.

JPEG – The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras

Lag Time – The pause between the time the shutter button is pressed and when the camera really captures the look

LCD – (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a small screen on the digital camera for viewing images.

Lens – A circular and clear glass or plastic piece which has the function of collecting light and focusing it around the sensor to capture the look.

Megabyte – (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the amount of information in a file, or how much information can be contained on the Storage device, Hard disk or Disk.

Pixels – Tiny units of color that comprise digital pictures. Pixels also measure digital resolution. A million pixels results in one mega-pixel.

RGB – Describes Red, Green, Blue colors utilized on computers to create all other colors.

Resolution – Camera image resolution describes the number of pixels used to create the image, which determines the quantity of detail a camera can capture. The greater pixels a camera has, the greater detail it can register and also the larger the picture can be printed.

Storage Card – The removable storage device which holds pictures taken with the camera, similar to film, but smaller. Also called a digital camera memory card…

Viewfinder – The optical “window” to look through to compose the scene.

White Balance – White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for the kind of light (daylight, fluorescent, incandescent, etc.,) or lighting conditions in the scene therefore it will look normal towards the eye.

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