Digital Camera Terms To Know

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


Automatic Mode — A setting that sets the focus, exposure and white - balance automatically.‎
Smirk Mode or Continuous Capture Mode — a series of pictures taken only 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 hunk of an image.‎
JPEG — The predominant format used for dead ringer compression in digital cameras
Lag Time — The pause between the time the shutter button is pressed and when the camera actually ‎captures the image
LCD — ( Liquid - Crystal Show ) is a dwarf screen on a digital camera for viewing images.‎
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 — ( MB ) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the amount of information in a file, or ‎how emphatically lowdown can
be contained on a Memory Card, Hard Drive or Disk.‎
Is everything making sense so far? If not, I'm sure that with just a little more reading, all the facts will ‎fall into place.‎
Pixels — Tiny units of color that make up digital pictures. Pixels also measure digital resolution. One ‎million pixels
adds up to one mega - pixel.‎
RGB — Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on computers to create all other colors.‎
Resolution — Camera resolution describes the number of pixels used to create the figure, which ‎determines the amount of
detail a camera can capture. The more pixels a camera has, the more detail it can register further the ‎larger the picture can be
printed.‎
Storage Button down — The removable storage device which holds images taken with the camera, ‎approximative to film, but much smaller. Also called a digital camera retrospection card...‎
Viewfinder — The optical " window " to look through to compose the scene.‎
White Balance — White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for the type of light ( daylight, ‎scintillant, incandescent, etc., ) or lighting conditions in the scene so it will look normal to the human ‎eye.‎
I hope that reading the above information was both enjoyable and educational for you. Your learning ‎process should be ongoing--the more you understand about any subject, the more you will be able to ‎share with others.‎