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Digital Camera: A camera that captures the photo not on film, but in an electronic imaging sensor that takes the place of film.

Digital Video (DV): Any video format that relies on digital technology for recording and/or editing. For example, video recorded with a digital camera or edited on a nonlinear editing system.

Secure Digital (SD) Card: A Secure Digital (SD) card is an SDMI-compliant flash memory card used in many digital cameras, memory players, and other portable digital devices. Like other SDMI-compliant cards, an SD car . . . View Full Definition

Digital Zoom: The ability to magnify an optical image digitally, using interpolation. Digital cameras can come with quite high levels of digital zoom, but the image quality suffers noticeably as more digi . . . View Full Definition

Large Format Camera: General term for any camera having a picture format of 4 x 5 inches or larger.

Miniature Camera: Is a term commonly applied to cameras with a format size of less than 35mm.

Lens Shutter Camera: Camera with the shutter built into the lens.

Multimode Camera: Is a 35mm camera that will operate in several modes.

One Shot Color Camera: Is an obsolete plate camera making three color separation negatives from a single exposure.

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI): An interface as well as file format standard for using a musical instrument with a computer and recording and storing the data from it. A MIDI file contains information about recorded notes: . . . View Full Definition