1/05/2012

Fiveteen Digital Camera Terms That Are Always Good To Know

By James Helmering


It helps when learning to make use of your new digital camera to also know what some of the more common terms mean. Below you'll find many of these common terms defined.

1. Automatic Mode â€" A setting that sets the focus, exposure and white-balance automatically.

2. Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode â€" a series of pictures taken one after another at quickly timed intervals with one press of the shutter button.

3. Compression â€" The process of compacting digital data, photographs and text by removing selected information.

4. Digital Zoom â€" Cropping and magnifying the center part of an image.

5. JPEG â€" The number one format used for image compression in digital cameras

6. Lag Time â€" The pause between the time the shutter button is pushed and when the camera actually captures the image

7. LCD â€" (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a tiny screen on a digital camera for viewing images.

8. Lens â€" A circular and transparent glass or plastic piece that has the action of collecting light and focusing it on the sensor to capture the image.

9. Megabyte â€" (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers back to the quantity of info in a file, or how much information can

be contained on a Memory Card, Drive or Disk.

10. Pixels â€" Small units of color that make up digital photos. Pixels also measure digital resolution. One million pixels

adds up to one mega-pixel.

11. RGB â€" Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on PCs to form all of the other colors.

12. Resolution â€" Camera resolution describes the quantity of pixels used to form the image, which establishes the amount of

detail a camera can capture. The more pixels a camera has, the more detail it can register and the larger the picture can be

printed.

13. Storage Card â€" The removable storage device which holds images taken with the camera, comparable to film, but far smaller. Also called a digital camera memory card.

14. View-finder â€" The optical "window" to look thru to compose the scene.

15. White Balance â€" White balancing adjusts the camera to provide compensation for the sort of light (sunlight, fluorescent, incandescent, etc.,) or lighting conditions in the scene so it'll look normal to the eye.

16. Photo Revising Software - In most cases this is a disk that comes with your digital camera. Photo editing software is utilized on your PC to improve your photo quality and to remove unwanted marks or things that you didn't need in your picture. You can get a free photo editing software if you didn't already receive one with your camera or you can opt to purchase a paid version if you're an advanced photographer. It is often counseled that every photographer has some kind of photo revising software and it'll help you stick with the competition.




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