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Photography Terms and Definitions
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| Auto focus refers to a camcorder lens’ ability to |
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| adjust its configuration in order to focus properly on |
| Auto Focus |
| a subject regardless of whether it is near or far from |
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| the camcorder. Auto focus lenses generally provide | |
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| vastly superior image quality than do their fixed | |
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| focus cousins since they do not have to rely on their |
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| depth of field. Also known as: “AF”, |
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| The adjustment of electronic still picture color |
| White |
| channel gains or image processing so that radiation |
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| with relative spectral power distribution equal to that | |
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| of the scene illumination source is rendered as a | |
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| visual neutral. |
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| With auto white balance, the camcorder attempts to |
| Auto White |
| determine the color temperature of the light and |
| Balance |
| automatically adjust for that color temperature. |
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| Many people just leave the camcorder set to auto |
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| white balance all the time. |
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| A standardized ASCII file created in a digital |
| Digital Print |
| camcorder and stored on removable media along |
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| with the image files that indicate how many copies |
| Format |
| of which images should be printed. It also allows |
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| index prints, cropping, and text overlays to be |
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| specified. |
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| A compressed file format for digital camcorder in |
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| which the images are compressed using the |
| Exif/JPEG |
| baseline JPEG standard, described in ISO |
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| using TIFF tags within an application segment at |
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| the beginning of the JPEG file. |
| JPEG |
| Joint Photographic Experts Group. An image |
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| compression method defined in ISO/IEC | |
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