16 Digital Camera Terms To Know

- 16 Digital Camera Terms to know - 

When learning how to use a new digital camera, it is also helpful to understand the meaning of some of the most commonly used terms.

The following are definitions of many common terms:

1. Automatic Mode:

A setting mode that determines the focus, exposure, and white balance automatically.

2. Burst Mode (Continuous Capture Mode):

It allows pictures to be taken in rapid succession with one press of the shutter button.

3. Compression:

The process of compacting digital data using fewer bits than the original representation.

4. Digital Zoom: 

 The method of decreasing the precise angle of view of a digital photograph, it is accomplished by   Cropping and magnifying the center part of an image.

5. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group):

commonly used for image compression in digital cameras

6. Lag Time:

Further often denoted as shutter lag, It’s the delay between the time the shutter button is pressed and when the camera actually captures the image.

7. LCD: 

(Liquid-Crystal Display) is a flat-panel display or a small screen on a digital camera for viewing pictures.

8. Lens: 

A circular glass piece that has the characteristic of accumulating light and focusing it on the sensor to capture the image.

9. Megabyte (MB):

1MB = 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the volume of information in a file, or how much information can be contained on a Support medium.

10. Pixels:

Small units of color that make up digital pictures. Pixels also measure digital resolution. One million pixels adds up to one mega-pixel.

11. RGB:

 Refers to Red, Green, Blue light, added together to create all other colors.

12. Resolution: 

Camera resolution describes the image size that the digital camera produces, the number of pixels used to create the image, which determines the volume of detail a camera can capture. The more pixels a camera has, the more detail it can record and the bigger the picture can be printed.

13. Storage Card: 

The removable storage device which stores images taken with the camera, similar to the film, but much smaller. Also called a memory card.

14. Viewfinder:

 The optical "window" for looking through to compose and make the scene.

15. White Balance: 

White balancing regulates the camera to compensate for the type of light (daylight, fluorescent, incandescent, etc.,) or lighting conditions in the scene so it will look normal to the human eye.