Digital Camera Terms you should know about
Everyone owning a digital camera surely isn’t sure what some of the functions means. It will help to learn some of the most common terms that are frequently used on digital cameras. Below we have listed some of these terms and some explanations for them.
Automatic mode – Is a setting that will automatically adjust the focus, exposure, and white-balance.
Burst mode or the continuous capture mode – Best described as a function that will quickly take a series of pictures after each other, in a timed interval, just after one press of the shutter button.
Compression – This is the process of compacting the digital data, by deleting selected information in order to reduce the file sizes.
Digital Zoom – Basically means cropping and magnifying the center part of a picture.
JPEG – Probably the most used image compression mode in digital cameras, but also the most used format to upload to the internet.
LCD – LCD stands for “Liquid-Crystal Display”, and is the little screen on the digital camera that is used for viewing the images.
Lens – The most important part of a digital camera. The lens is usually a circular and transparent glass in front of the camera that actually collects the light, focuses it on a sensor, and stores it in the memory.
Megabyte (MB) – The size of the memory capacity that the camera is capable of storing.
Pixels – Tiny dots of color that every image made by a digital camera consists of. Pixels also usually refer to the digital resolution. It should be said that one million pixels adds up to one mega-pixel.
RGB – Stands for Red, Green, Blue, and are the colors used on computers to create every other colors.
Resolution – The resolution of a camera tells you the number of pixels that are used to create the image. It is always good to have a high resolution camera, because then you will get more detail into every image taken. If you have a very high resolution then you also can print larger pictures without it looking awful.
Storage card – You cant take pictures without a storage card. This is the removable unit that holds your images taken by the camera. Commonly called a digital camera memory card.
Viewfinder – When composing the scene you want, the viewfinder is the optical window you would look through.
White Balance – If you have trouble taking a good picture because of light issues, white balancing will adjust the camera to compensate for the type of light you are having in your scene.
