When I first bought my digital camera I was clueless as to how to use it. And when I opened up the manual, I was just as clueless, because I had no idea what any of the terminology meant.
Therefore, to help those as digital camera terminology-challenged as me, I give you this mini-dictionary of important digital camera terms. I hope you it will help you to be able to use your digital camera to its full benefit, instead of smashing it against the wall, like I roughly did.
Automatic Mode
The automatic mode setting of a digital camera is like the beginner's setting, aka the idiot-proof setting, because it automatically that determines and sets the "optimum" focus, exposure and white-balance.
Continuous Capture Mode aka Burst Mode
I call this mode 'machine gun' mode, because it's just like a machine gun burst: you hold down the trigger, i.e., the shutter button, and the camera keeps on shooting pictures one right after the other for as long as your finger is held down.
Compression
Compression is a term found only in the digital camera world. Your old Kodaks had nothing to do with compression, which is a process of compressing a digital file size by compacting the data, along with the images and text by essentially stripping out and getting rid of excellent data bytes.
Digital Zoom
Digital zoom is not much separate than primary zoom, you zoom into and magnify the town of the screen and crop out the rest.
Jpeg
Jpeg is a data format that compresses the data bits of an image. Other formats comprise png and the old pif files.
Lag Time
Something that a lot of digital cameras, especially the cheaper ones, haven't quite caught up to the old film cameras is the lag time, which is the incompatibility in time between when you certainly press the camera's button to take the photo (the shutter button) and when the camera certainly shoots the image.
Lcd
The screen that shows you what you're taking the photo of is the Lcd, or Liquid-Crystal Display.
Lens
The lens is the eye of the camera, and the photo that is taken certainly is advent through that lens, which is a round, clear piece (or pieces) of glass or plastic collects light and directs the image, via those light waves, onto the camera sensor, thereby capturing it.
Megabyte(Mb)
A megabyte, or Mb, is a measure of the amount of computer data. A byte is the smallest measure of computer data, while a Mb is equal to 1024 Kilobytes. In terms of digital camera, megabytes denote the amount of storage; i.e, the more megabytes, the more pictures you can store on the camera's memory card.
Pixels
A pixel is a tiny unit of color. All pictures are composed of pixels. Resolution is measured in pixels. The greater the resolution, the larger the pixels, then the clearer the picture. A mega-pixel is equal to one million pixels.
Rgb Color Code
Rgb is an abbreviation for Red, Green and Blue, which are the colors that are blended together in varying degrees to originate all digital colors.
Picture Resolution
Resolution, as described above, is the clarity and information of a digital camera image. The higher the resolution, the clearer the picture, as previously described-but also the larger the file size and the more memory it will use.
Memory Card
The memory card is a removable storage unit that holds digital data, or images taken by a digital camera. It is the modern day 'film'.
Viewfinder
The viewfinder is what you are finding through when you are taking the picture.
White Balance
White balancing is a fancy way of describing how much light there is, and it determines how much light is needed to take the 'best' picture, and adjusts discrete parts of the camera accordingly, by either allowing in more light, even increasing it via a flash, or reducing it.
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