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.
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 operation of condensing the digital information stored such as text and pictures by eliminating the chosen data.
Digital Zoom - Reducing and amplifying the middle portion of the picture.
JPEG - The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras
Lag time - The time that the shutter button is squeezed from the time that the actual image is captured.
LCD - known as Liquid Crystal Display, a tiny window on a digital camera used to check out saved and unsaved images.
Lens - A round and translucent plastic or glass fragment which acts as a light collector and concentrates it on the sensor to take the picture.
Megabyte - MB, is equivalent to 1024KB that points out the amount of data stored in a file or how much can be stored in the memory card or disk.
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 - resolution of a digital camera defines the amount of pixels utilized to produce a picture. It is also a basis on how detailed an image will be produced. The greater the pixel amount, the better the picture.
Storage Card - the detachable component of your digital camera that is used to store data such as the images.
Viewfinder - the visual frame to see through to setup the perfect scene.
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.
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 operation of condensing the digital information stored such as text and pictures by eliminating the chosen data.
Digital Zoom - Reducing and amplifying the middle portion of the picture.
JPEG - The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras
Lag time - The time that the shutter button is squeezed from the time that the actual image is captured.
LCD - known as Liquid Crystal Display, a tiny window on a digital camera used to check out saved and unsaved images.
Lens - A round and translucent plastic or glass fragment which acts as a light collector and concentrates it on the sensor to take the picture.
Megabyte - MB, is equivalent to 1024KB that points out the amount of data stored in a file or how much can be stored in the memory card or disk.
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 - resolution of a digital camera defines the amount of pixels utilized to produce a picture. It is also a basis on how detailed an image will be produced. The greater the pixel amount, the better the picture.
Storage Card - the detachable component of your digital camera that is used to store data such as the images.
Viewfinder - the visual frame to see through to setup the perfect scene.
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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