Coin battery | A small battery shaped like a coin which is used to retain the camera’s date and |
| time information. |
Color LCD | The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen on the back of the camera that |
| displays your photos and the camera menus used to set preferences and select |
| options. |
Color LCD on/off button | The button on the back of the camera used to turn the color LCD on and off. |
CompactFlash memory card | The type of memory card used by the HP PhotoSmart C500 Digital Camera. |
| See also “Memory card.” |
Compression | A technique of condensing color and detail information to decrease the size of |
| a photo file and save space on the memory card. |
Computer connection | A port used to connect the digital camera by a cable to a computer. |
Digital zoom | A type of zoom used to digitally crop or frame the photo by enlarging the |
| center portion of the image automatically in the camera. |
Exposure Value | A number representing the available combinations of shutter speeds and |
| apertures that give the same exposure effect under similar scene brightness |
| and lighting conditions. |
Eye Start | A feature that brings the camera out of sleep mode and starts adjusting the |
| exposure when your eye is close to the viewfinder. Eye Start uses two sensors |
| located next to the viewfinder. |
Flash | A bright burst of light from the camera which illuminates a subject when the |
| surrounding light is too dim to take a quality photo. |
Flash button | The button on the top of the camera used to change the flash setting. |
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