Digital Cameras Glossary
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Film Speed: With traditional film cameras, sensitivity, also known as ISO, represents the film's sensitivity to light. A lower ISO number means that the film needs more light to take a picture than film . . . View Full Definition
Fire: Slang for shooting a picture. Example: I pressed the shutter button to fire.
Firewire: A type of cabling technology for transferring data to and from digital devices at high speed. Some professional digital cameras and memory card readers connect to the computer over fire wire . . . View Full Definition
Flash: Built-in to most digital cameras, sometimes adjust for intensity of flash.
Floppy Disks: Storage media for some digital cameras.
Focal Length: Focal length is a measure of the distance (in millimeters) from the optical center of a camera's lens to its focal point, which is located on the image sensor. Because digital cameras' focal . . . View Full Definition
Full Frame Image Sensor: Some advanced digital SLR cameras feature an image sensor that has the same dimensions as a frame of 35mm film found on traditional film SLRs, which is much larger in physical size than sens . . . View Full Definition
Grayscale: A photo made up of varying tones of black and white. Grayscale is synonymous with black and white.
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Highlights: The brightest parts of a photo.
Histogram: A graphic representation of the range of tones from dark to light in a photo. Some digital cameras include a histogram feature that enables a precise check on the exposure of the photo.
Hot-Shoe Receptacle: A fixture allowing the use of an extermal flash.
Image Browser: An application that enables you to view digital photos. Some browsers also allow you to rename files, convert photos from one file format to another, add text descriptions, and more.
Image Editor: A computer program that enables you to adjust a photo to improve its appearance. With image editing software, you can darken or lighten a photo, rotate it, adjust its contrast, crop out extr . . . View Full Definition
Image Resolution: The number of pixels in a digital photo is commonly referred to as its image resolution.
Image Sensor: A digital camera's image sensing element, or as it's often referred to, its image sensor. The image sensor's job is to convert light to electrical energy, which can then be stored in digital . . . View Full Definition
Image Stabilization: A feature that reduces the blurring of images that occurs as a result of camera shake when taking hand-held shots, particularly at slow shutter speeds or when using telephoto lenses. Optical . . . View Full Definition
Inkjet: A printer that places ink on the paper by spraying droplets through tiny nozzles.
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