It helps when learning to use your new digital camera to also know what a few of the more prevalent terms mean. Below if you have been of those common terms defined..
Automatic Mode – A setting that sets the main 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 of the shutter button.
Compression – The process of compacting digital data, images and text by wiping out selected information.
Zoom – Cropping and magnifying the middle part of an image.
JPEG – The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras
Lag Time – The pause between your time the shutter button is pressed so when the camera really captures the image
LCD – (Liquid-Crystal Display) is really a small screen on a digital camera for viewing images.
Lens – A circular and translucent glass or plastic piece which has the function of collecting light and focusing it around the sensor to capture the image.
Megabyte – (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the quantity of information in a file, or just how much information can be contained on a Memory Card, 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 – Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on computers to create all other colors.
Resolution – Camera image resolution describes the number of pixels accustomed to produce the image, which determines the amount of detail a camera can capture. The more pixels a camera has, the greater detail it can register and also the larger the picture can be printed.
Storage Card – The removable hard drive which contains pictures taken with the camera, comparable to film, but much smaller. Also called a digital camera storage device…
Viewfinder – The optical “window” to look through to compose the scene.
White Balance – White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for that kind of light (daylight, fluorescent, incandescent, etc.,) or lighting conditions in the scene so it will look normal to the human eye.
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This post was written by TKB_Editor on January 26, 2012
