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Photography Terms and Defi nitions

Terms

Defi nitions

 

 

 

 

A simple technique professional photographers use to ensure

 

they properly expose their pictures, especially in challenging

auto exposure bracketing (AEB)

lighting situations. When AEB is selected, the camera

 

automatically takes three or more shots with a different

 

exposure for each frame.

 

 

 

Auto focus refers to a camera lens’ ability to adjust its

 

confi guration in order to focus properly on a subject regardless

auto focus (AF)

of whether it is near or far from the camera. Auto focus lenses

generally provide vastly superior image quality than do their

 

 

fi xed focus cousins since they do not have to rely on their depth

 

of fi eld. Also known as: “AF”, “auto-focus”

 

 

 

An end-user created object that is used to logically group data

album

objects according to some user-defi ned criteria. An album may

 

or may not be a physical folder in a fi le system.

 

 

Analog to Digital Converter (A/D

A circuit that converts an analog signal, having a continuously

varying amplitude, to a digitally quantized representation using

or ADC)

binary output signals.

 

 

 

aspect ratio

cf. image aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio.

 

 

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