Terminology - Digital Cameras

It helps when learning to use your new digitalpiece that has the function of collecting light and
camera to also know what some of the morefocusing it on the sensor to capture the image.
common terms mean. Below you will find manyMegabyte - (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes, and
of these common terms defined..refers to the amount of information in a file, or
Automatic Mode - A setting that sets the focus,how much information canbe contained on a
exposure and white-balance automatically.Memory Card, Hard Drive or Disk.
Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode - aPixels - Tiny units of color that make up digital
series of pictures taken one after another atpictures. Pixels also measure digital resolution. One
quickly timed intervals with one press of themillion pixelsadds up to one mega-pixel.
shutter button.RGB - Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on
Compression - The process of compacting digitalcomputers to create all other colors.
data, images and text by deleting selectedResolution - Camera resolution describes the
information.number of pixels used to create the image, which
Digital Zoom - Cropping and magnifying the centerdetermines the amount ofdetail a camera can
part of an image.capture. The more pixels a camera has, the more
JPEG - The predominant format used for imagedetail it can register and the larger the picture can
compression in digital camerasbeprinted.
Lag Time - The pause between the time theStorage Card - The removable storage device
shutter button is pressed and when the camerawhich holds images taken with the camera,
actually captures the imagecomparable to film, but much smaller. Also called a
LCD - (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a small screen ondigital camera memory card...
a digital camera for viewing images.Viewfinder - The optical "window" to look through
Lens - A circular and transparent glass or plasticto compose the scene.