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Terms Associated With Your Digital Camera
There are different modes that a particular switch or dial on your digital camera lets you decide on, “Automatic Mode” is the most common setting in which photographs are taken by amateurs. It is a computer controlled setting where the white balance, exposure, focus, aperture and all the other settings are adjusted automatically to best suit the conditions. In “Burst Mode” you can capture multiple shots with one click, it keeps on snapping within a a very short time to capture the number of images preset by you.
“JPEG” is actually the format used by most digital cameras to compress the images. It is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group. Compression in a digital camera is a procedure where the file size of the image is compacted by digitally removing certain details from the image.
A “lens” is probably the most important part of a digital camera; it is mainly on the basis of this lens that the quality of a camera is determined. It is a round, transparent and powerful piece of glass that captures the light needed to photograph the image in context and focuses it on the sensor. A digital zoom is not actual zooming; it focuses by just magnifying the central portion of the view.
The lighting conditions may differ with the surrounding environment; therefore the camera would need adjustment in order to cope with the fluctuating light conditions. “White balance” lets you adjust the light conditions to capture the image in the proper manner. The delay which takes place in between the two actions of clicking and actual capturing is called the “lag time”.
“Megabytes” (MB) represent the size of a particular image file or the size of the memory card or storage device. “Pixels and Mega pixels” are micro blocks of color that join together to create a digital photograph. One million pixels constitute a single mega pixel. “RGB” or Red Green and Blue are the basic colors that are used in the computers to produce different shades of all the colors. “Resolution” is equivalent to the number of pixels that have come together to constitute the picture. The higher the resolution the larger the picture can be developed into and also the details will increase with the mega pixels.
An “LCD” is the primary small display which accompanies all digital cameras; Liquid Crystal Display is the full form of LCD. “Storage cards” are actually memory cards used to store or record the digital imprints of the images that you will capture with your digital camera. A “viewfinder” refers to the small optical window through which you can only look with one eye at a time in order to get a more professional view of the subject to be captured.
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