It helps when you learn to use your new digital camera to also know what some of the most common terms mean. Below are many of these common terms defined ..
Automatic Mode – An environment that sets the focus, exposure and white balance automatically.
Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode – a series of pictures taken one after the other quickly timed intervals with one press of the shutter button.
– Compression The process of compacting digital data, images and text, by deleting selected information.
Digital Zoom – Cropping and magnifying the central portion of the image.
JPEG – The predominant format used for image compression in digital cameras
Lag Time – The pause between when you press the shutter button and when the camera actually captures the image
LCD – (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a small screen on a digital camera for viewing images.
Lens – A circular and transparent glass or a piece of plastic that serves to collect light and their concentration on the sensor to capture the image.
Megabyte – (MB) Measures of 1024 kilobytes, and refers to the amount of information in a file, or the amount of information possible
be contained in a memory card, hard drive or disk.
Pixels – color very small units that make up digital images. They also measure pixel resolution camera. A million pixels
adds up to a mega-pixel.
Colors RGB – Refers to the color red, green, blue used on computers to create all colors.
Resolution – Camera resolution describes the number of pixels used to create the image, which determines the amount of
detail a camera can capture. The more pixels a camera has, the detail can be recorded and the big picture can be
printed.
Memory Card – The removable storage device that contains the images taken with the camera, comparable to the film, but much smaller. Also called a memory card from the camera …
Viewfinder – The optical "window" to look through to compose the scene.
White Balance – White balancing adjusts the camera to compensate for the type of light of light (fluorescent, incandescent, etc,) or lighting conditions at the scene for what appears normal to the human eye.