Understanding Digital Camera Terms

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 feature that lets you setup the appropriate picture settings automatically.

Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode – a sequence of images that are captured one after the other at regular intervals with a single squeeze of the button.

Compression – the course of compressing the pictures and texts stored into your digital camera by deleting the chosen data.

Digital Zoom – Amplification of the axis of the image

JPEG – The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras

Lag Time – the freeze time between the moment you push the button and the actual time the image is captured.

LCD – or Liquid Crystal Display that is a limited spaced screen designed for viewing and editing saved and taken pictures.

Lens – An oblique and clear plastic or glass fragment which functions to accumulate light and then concentrate it all to the sensor to take the image.

Megabyte – (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and 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 – Small parts of colors that compose digital images. It is also a marker for resolution of a digital camera.

RGB – it cites the red, green, blue colors that are utilized in computer systems to produce the 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 – It is a virtually created window to look through to be able to create the perfect scene or background.

White Balance – it alters the camera to make up for the kind of light or the different and changing lighting situations in the background to make it look normal to the human eye.

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