Digital Cameras Glossary
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Remote Control: Allows activating the camera from a short distance away.
Removable Media: All of our digital cameras use some kind of reusable removable memory, such as Memory Sticks, compactflash cards, and Secure Digital cards. These memory cards offer varying amounts of storag . . . View Full Definition
Resolution: The number of pixels used to capture an image. Resolution ranges from low (640 x 480) to high (2592 x 1944 and up). High resolution makes for sharper pictures; however, high-resolution photo . . . View Full Definition
Saturation: How rich the colors are in a photo.
Scene Mode: Most cameras offer what are called 'scene modes' — settings that are optimized for the demands of certain kinds of photographic scenes or subjects. Some common examples include an action/spo . . . View Full Definition
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
Self-Timer: A setting that allows a lapse between pressing the shutter button and firing of the camera.
Sensitivity: 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
Serial: A method for connecting an external device such as a printer, scanner, or camera, to a computer. It has been all but replaced by USB and fire wire in modern computers.
Sharpness: The clarity of detail in a photo.
Shutter Priority Mode: Shutter Priority mode can be found in most dSLRs and SLR-like cameras and some compact Digital Cameras. When using the Shutter Priority mode, the camera allows manual setting of the shutter . . . View Full Definition
Shutter Speed: The speed at which a digital camera's shutter exposes the image sensor to light. A shutter speed of 1/60 means that the sensor is exposed to light for 1/60th of a second. Faster shutter spee . . . View Full Definition
Single-Lens Reflex (SLR): An SLR, or single-lens reflex, camera is named for its picture-taking mechanism. In a film SLR, the viewfinder uses a 45°-angled mirror to see through the lens; that mirror snaps out of sigh . . . View Full Definition
Size: Extremely variable in digital cameras.
Smartmedia: A wafer-thin, matchbook size memory card. This is also a flash-memory based storage medium.
Software: May include USB setup, image-editing or storage software.
Special Effects: Sepia, black-and-white, possibly others.
Spot Metering: Meters the light at the center of the image storage media.
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