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Photography Terms and Definitions
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| A simple technique professional photographers use to ensure they properly | |
auto exposure bracketing | expose their pictures, especially in challenging lighting situations. When AEB | |
(AEB) | is selected, the camera automatically takes three or more shots with a different | |
| exposure for each frame. | |
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| Autofocus refers to a camera lens’ ability to adjust its configuration in order | |
| to focus properly on a subject regardless of whether it is near or far from the | |
autofocus (AF) | camera. Autofocus lenses generally provide vastly superior image quality than | |
| do their fixed focus cousins since they do not have to rely on their depth of | |
| field. Also known as: “AF”, | |
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| An | |
album | according to some | |
| physical folder in a filesystem. | |
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Analog to Digital | A circuit that converts an analog signal, having a continuously varying | |
Converter (A/D or ADC) | amplitude, to a digitally quantized representation using binary output signals. | |
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aspect ratio | cf. image aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio. | |
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| With auto white balance, the camera attempts to determine the color | |
auto white balance (AWB) | temperature of the light and automatically adjust for that color temperature. | |
| Many people just leave the camera set to auto white balance all the time. | |
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Charge Coupled Device | A type of silicon integrated circuit used to convert light into an electronic signal. | |
(CCD) |
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compression | cf. image compression, sound file compression | |
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connection | A | |
data between devices. | ||
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| A standardized ASCII file created in a digital camera and stored on removable | |
Digital Print Order Format | media along with the image files that indicate how many copies of which | |
(DPOF) | images should be printed. It also allows index prints, cropping, and text | |
| overlays to be specified. | |
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