Digital Camera Terms To Know

Posted by tomgreen on October 21, 2009

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

Automatic Mode :

A setting 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 of the shutter button.

Compression :

The process of compacting digital data, images and text by deleting selected information.

Digital Zoom :

Cropping and magnifying the center part of an image.

JPEG :

Imag compression in digital cameras using predominant format.

Lag Time :

When the camera actually captures the image, there is the pause between the time the shutter button is pressed.

LCD :

For viewing images on a digital camera using a small screen (Liquid-Crystal Display).

Lens :

A circular and transparent glass or plastic piece that has the function of collecting light and focusing it on the sensor to capture the image.

Megabyte :

How much information can be contained on a Memory Card, Hard Drive or Disk, (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the amount of information in a file.

Pixels :

Tiny units of color that make up digital pictures. Pixels also measure digital resolution. 1 million pixels adds up to one mega-pixel.

RGB :

Create all other colors refers to Red, Green, Blue colors on computers.

Resolution :

Camera resolution describes the number of pixels used to create the image, which determines the amount of detail a camera can capture. The more pixels cameras have, the more detail it can register also the larger the picture can be printed.

Storage Card :

The removable storage device which holds images taken with the camera, comparable to film, but much smaller. Called a digital camera memory card as well.

Viewfinder :

Compose the scene through the optical “window”.

White Balance :

White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for the type 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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