These digital camera photography definitions will help you to master the world of digital photos.
Automatic Mode — sets the focus, exposure and white-balance automatically.
Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode — a series of pictures taken one after another at very short timed intervals (with one press of the shutter button).
Compression — making digital data, images and text more compact.
Digital Zoom — cropping and magnifying the center part of an image.
JPEG — format used for image compression in digital cameras
Lag Time — the pause between the time when shutter button is pressed and when the camera makes the actual capture of the image
LCD or Liquid-Crystal Display — a small screen on a digital camera for viewing images.
Lens — a circular and transparent glass or plastic piece; it collects light and focuses it on the sensor to capture the image.
Megabyte or (MB) — is made up of 1024 Kilobytes, and refers to the amount of information in a file.
Pixels — tiny units of color that make up digital pictures and measure digital resolution.
RGB — Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on computers to create all other colors.
Resolution — the number of pixels used to create the image. Basically this number determines the amount of detail a camera can capture. That is why the more pixels in a camera , the more details it can reproduce in the picture.
Storage Card — removable storage device where the digital info about each image taken is stored. It is also called a digital camera memory card
Viewfinder — optical window to look through to compose the scene.
White Balance — when working with white balance, you adjust the camera to compensate for the type of light or lighting conditions in the scene so it will look normal to the human eye.
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