shutter release button | A |
| halfway down allows the camera to make various settings, such as Auto Focus Lock. Pressing this button |
| all the way down in one motion allows the camera to make various settings and to capture one or more |
| images, depending on the image type selected. The camera makes a shutter sound as each image |
| is captured. |
shutter speed | The amount of time the shutter stays open when you press the shutter release button. |
size | The actual height and width of an image when you have saved the image. You will not see the image size |
| change in the image LCD after you save it. |
sleep mode | A feature that conserves battery power by automatically shutting off the image LCD after a period of time |
| (default 2 minutes) that the camera hasn’t been used. |
slideshow | The sequential viewing of images stored on the camera's memory card in Playback mode. |
soft keys | Three buttons that are located just below the image LCD on the back of the camera. The soft keys let you |
| work with images and menus on the image LCD. See also “image LCD” on page 118. |
sound record button | A button on the back of the camera that allows you to record sound that is then attached to an image. |
speaker | The audio device on the back of the camera that allows you to hear the camera’s system sounds (shutter |
| clicks, beeps, and so forth). It also allows you to hear sound that was previously recorded and attached to |
| an image via the camera’s sound record button. |
status LCD | The Liquid Crystal Display on the top of the camera that uses a combination of numeric characters and |
| icons to communicate the camera's status, such as particular camera settings. |
status LCD buttons | The three buttons beneath the status LCD that you can press to set the flash mode, timer mode, and auto |
| focus range. See also “auto focus range button” on page 115, “flash mode button” on page 117, and “timer |
| mode button” on page 123. |
strobe | See “flash” on page 117. |
subject | The main object, person, or scene that you want to capture with your camera. |
telephoto | A lens that has a longer focal length and narrower field of view (includes less subject area) than a normal |
| lens. A telephoto lens makes a subject appear larger and/or closer than does a normal lens at the same |
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thumbnail | A miniature of the original image that is large enough to allow you to identify the image, but is small |
| enough to allow you to see multiple images in a single software window. Thumbnails are used to display |
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TIFF | Tagged Image File Format. A bitmapped file format for images. TIFF does not compress the image. TIFF |
| files are supported by many programs and can also be used on many types of computers. See also “file |
| type” on page 117 and “JPEG” on page 118. |
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