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PCMCIA card. “Standard,” removable credit-card sized cards that meet the Personal Computer Memory Card International Associa- tion standard, that are used with the camera for image storage.

Photoshop driver. The software provided by Kodak as part of the camera that allows you to access the camera from your Macintosh computer. It also allows you to acquire images, to set camera defaults, to test the camera, to update the camera, to manage images you may have moved or copied to your computer hard disk, and so on. Another driver, the “TWAIN driver” provides similar access on the PC platform (including access to the PC version of Photoshop).

Plug-in.

Another name for the driver software. See also Driver.

Preview.

A single, large representation of one image that appears in

 

the image area of the driver image window. Previews can be

 

viewed in a variety of sizes.

Self-test.

A feature of the driver that allows you to perform a diagnos-

 

tic self-test of the camera.

Thumbnails. Small representations of images — in a variety of sizes — that appear in the driver image window. A thumbnail is a subsample of the data in the full image.

TWAIN.

A set of written specifications developed by a consortium of

 

vendors, that when implemented in software allows you to

 

acquire data from a peripheral (such as a digital camera or

 

film scanner) directly into your software application (such as

 

an image-editing software) without leaving the application.

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