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The Must-Know Digital Camera Terms


By Kathleen Burch


It helps to know what some of the more common terms mean when you are learning to use your new digital camera. Keep reading to learn some of the many common terms you need to know.

Automatic Mode. This setting will automatically set the focus, exposure, as well as white-balance.

Defining Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode. With just one press of the shutter button, these are a series of pictures taken one after another at quickly timed intervals.

Defining Compression. By deleting selected information, this process compacts digital data, images, as well as text.

What is Digital Zoom? Cropping and magnifying the center part of an image. JPEG. The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras Defining Lag Time. The pause between the time the shutter button is pressed and when the camera actually captures the image

Defining LCD. LCD, or liquid-crystal display, refers to the small screen on a digital camera for viewing images.

Defining Lens. This refers to 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. Megabyte, or MB, measures 1024 Kilobytes and it also refers to the amount of information in a file, or how much information can be contained on a Memory Card, Hard Drive or Disk.

Pixels. Making up digital pictures are these tiny units of color. Pixels also measure digital resolution. One million pixels adds up to one mega-pixel.

Defining RGB. This refers to the colors red, green, and blue and they are used in computers to create all other colors.

Defining Resolution. Describing the number of pixels used to create the image is called camera resolution and this determines the amount of detail a camera can capture. If the camera has more pixels, then it will can register more detail and it can also print a larger picture.

What is Storage Card? This removable storage device is much smaller and it holds images taken with the camera, comparable to film. It's also known as digital camera memory card.

Defining a viewfinder. The optical "window" to look through to compose the scene.

Defining White Balance. You can use white balancing in order to adjust 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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