| compactflash | The most common type of digicam flash memory storage. it is removable, small and available in sizes from 4mb up to 1gb. cf type i the original 3.3mm high card cf type ii cards and devices that are... |
| continuous autofocus | - (continuous-af) the autofocus system is full-time and works even before the shutter release is pressed.
- As it says. the auto focus system is continuously working on focussing on the...
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| crw | - The raw ccd file format used by canon digicams. abbreviated from canonraw.
- The raw ccd file format used by canon digital cameras. comes from canon raw.
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| dark frame | - A noise reduction process whereby a camera takes a second exposure of a black frame after the camera takes a long exposure (1/2-second or longer) image. the image noise is easily identified in...
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| dedicated flash | - Describes an electronic flash that is made to be used only with a specific model of camera. canon, nikon, olympus and other cameras have specific electrical contacts in the hot shoe to pass tt...
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| diffusion dithering | A method of dithering that randomly distributes pixels instead of using a set pattern. |
| digital film | - Term used to describe solid state flash memory cards.
- Quite simply that. solid state flash memory cards in place of emulsion film.
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| digital zoom | - A digital magnification of the center 50% of an image. digital zooms by nature generate less than sharp images because the new zoomed image has been interpolated.
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| digitization | - The process of converting analog information into digital format for use by a computer.
- Оцифровка
digitalización; оцифровка; преобразование в цифровую форму; представление в цифровом виде;; дискретизация; оцифровка;; преобразование; |
| diopter adjustment | Adjusts the optical viewfinder`s magnification factor to suit the eyesight of the user. look for a knob or dial next to or beneath the viewfinder`s eyepiece. not all cameras have this feature. |
| dpof | - Digital print order format. allows you to embed printing information on your memory card. select the pictures to be printed and how many prints to make. some photo printers with card slots wil...
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| dram buffer | - All digicams have a certain amount of fixed memory in them to facilitate image processing before the finished picture is stored to the flash memory card. cameras that have a burst mode have mu...
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| dye sub | - Limation is a printing process where the color dyes are thermally transferred to the printing media. dye sub printers use the cmyk (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) color format and have either t...
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| epp - enhanced parallel port | Epp enhanced parallel port the newer hi-speed, bidirectional printer port on modern computers. some older digicams and scanners use the epp port to transfer data. |
| eri-jpeg | Extended range imaging technology, a new file format used in kodak professional digital cameras. this proprietary technology offers an innovative image file format similar to a jpeg, but with the ... |
| e-ttl | - Canon`s evaluative-ttl exposure system that uses a brief pre-flash before the main flash to calculate the exposure index.
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| exif print | (exif 2.2) is a new worldwide printer independent standard. under exif 2.2, the digital still camera can record data tags for specific camera settings and functions such as whether the flash was o... |
| exposure bracketing | - The camera automatically takes a series of 3 or 5 pictures and slightly varies the ev for each frame. this insures that at least one of the pictures will be as close to perfectly exposed as po...
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| exposure compensation | - Lighten or darken the image by overriding the exposure system. also known as ev compensation.
- Adding to or subtracting from the “correct” exposure time indicated by the camera`s lig...
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| file format | - A type of program or data file. some common image file formats include tiff, jpeg, and bmp.
- The way an image is saved to a digital camera`s memory. jpeg, tiff, and raw (dng or other...
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| fill flash | Using the flash to lighten shadow areas or just to provide more overall illumination in situations where you normally wouldn`t use the flash. outdoors in bright light you get very stark shadows un... |
| firewire | - Also known as ilink and officially designated as the ieee 1394 protocol. a high-speed data interface now being used on digital camcorders and some high-end digital still cameras.
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| fixed aperture | - Normally when a zoom lens goes from wide angle to telephoto the aperture changes. if the camera has an option to fix the aperture value then it remains constant regardless of focal length.
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| fixed focal length | - A term that describes a non-zoom lens, it is fixed at a given focal length and is not variable.
- Basically a non zoom lens. 100mm, 50mm, 200mm etc.
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| flash memory reader | See card readers see: flash memory cards/readers. |
| flashpath | A device that allows a smartmedia card to be inserted into a regular floppy diskette drive and its data transferred to the computer. there is also now a device for memory stick cards too. |
| flat bed scanner | - An optical scanner in which the original image remains stationary while the sensors (usually a ccd linear array) passes over or under it. the scanned material is held flat and scanned using a ...
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| floppy disk adapter | A device that resembles a 3-1/2 floppy diskette and allows a smartmedia cards or sony memory stick modules to be read in a standard 1.44mb floppy disk drive. and check here: flash memory cards/rea... |
| focus assist | - Some cameras employ a visible or invisible (infrared) lamp to illuminate the subject so the autofocus can work in low light or total darkness.
- Cameras with this send out a light, ei...
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| focus lock | - Pre-focusing the camera and then moving it to re-compose the image before capturing it. accomplished by half-pressing the shutter button and keeping it held at that position while moving the c...
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| fov - field of view | Fov field of view the area covered by the lens` angle of view. this is important to those with a digital slr camera using lenses designed for 35mm film cameras. the manufacturers specify the fov f... |
| fpx - flashpix | Fpx flashpix trade name for a new multi-resolution image file format jointly developed and introduced in june 1996 by kodak, hp, microsoft and live picture. |
| full bleed | - Printing term used when an image or inked area extends to the edge of all four sides of the printed piece. better known as borderless in today`s world of inkjet photo printers.
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| gigabyte (gb) | - A measure of computer memory or disk space consisting of about one thousand million bytes (a thousand megabytes). the actual value is 1,073,741,824 bytes (1024 megabytes).
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| had ccd | Sony`s latest ccd imager, had = hole accumulation diode |
| hologram laser af | Sony introduced a new laser-assisted auto focus system on the cyber-shot dcs-f707 that uses a safe class 1 laser to paint a grid on the subject that makes the auto focus fast and accurate. also fo... |
| hot shoe | - A flash connector generally found on the top of the camera that lets you attach a flash unit and trigger it in sync with the shutter.
- A “live” accessory shoe, usually located on the...
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| icc profile | - The international color consortium, a group that sets standard guidelines for color management in the imaging world. click here to read their faqs about color management and icc profiles and t...
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| ilink | - Sony`s term for iee-1394 firewire data port found on their camcorders.
- Sony’s term for the iee-1394 firewire data port found on sony camcorders.
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| image processing | - Capturing and manipulating images in order to enhance or extract information.
- Обработка изображения cm. также рiсturе рrосеssing
- Обработка изображений
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procesamiento de imagen .; ip; обработка изображений; picture processing; |
| image sensor | - A traditional camera exposes a piece of light-sensitive film, digital cameras use an electronic image sensor to gather the image data. see ccd and cmos as well as interlaced and progressive sc...
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| infolithium | Sony`s smart lithium rechargeable battery pack. it has a chip inside that tells the camera how long (in minutes) it will last at the current discharge rate. |
| inkjet | - A type of printer that sprays dots of ink onto paper to create the image. modern inkjet printers now have resolutions of up to 2880dpi and create true photo-quality prints.
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| interpolated | - Software programs can enlarge image resolution beyond the actual resolution by adding extra pixels using complex mathematic calculations. see resolution below
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| interval recording | Capturing a series of images at preset intervals. also called timelapse. |
| intervalometer | - Fancy term for time-lapse. capture an image or series of images at preset intervals automatically.
- (or interval recording) another term for time lapse photography. you can capture a...
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| jaggies | - Slang term for the stair-stepped appearance of a curved or angled line in digital imaging. the smaller the pixels, and the greater their number the less apparent the jaggies. also known as pix...
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| jpeg - joint photographic experts group | Jpeg joint photographic experts group the name of the committee that designed the standard image compression algorithm. jpeg is designed for compressing either full-color or grey-scale digital ima... |
| jpg | - The most common type of compressed image file format used in digicams. it is a lossy type of storage because even in its highest quality mode there is compression used to minimize its size. se...
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| l cdr - compactdisc recordable | L cdr compactdisc recordable a cd that you can write to once that can not be erased but can be read many times, holds 650~700mb of digital data. |
| l cdrw - compactdisc rewriteable | L cdrw compactdisc rewriteable the newest kind of cd-r that can be erased and re-used many times, holds about 450mb of data. |
| landscape mode | - Holding the camera in its normal horizontal orientation to capture the image. see portrait mode.
- This is when you hold the camera in its normal, horizontal orientation to capture th...
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| li-ion | - Some digicams are packaged with a lithium rechargeable battery pack. lithium batteries are lighter but more costly than nimh or nicd type of rechargeable cells. lithium cells can be recharged ...
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| lossless | - Storing the image in a non-compressed format, see tiff.
- Refers to storing an image in a non-compressed format, such as tiff.
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| matrix metering | - In most digicams there is a matrix metering option which uses 256 areas of the frame to calculate the best overall exposure value. see also: spot metering and center-weighted
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| md - minidisc | Md minidisc digital recording media like a small floppy disc. this is common for audio data and has been used on several digicams sold in japan and europe but not in the u.s. yet. |
| memory stick | - A flash memory card standard from sony. they resemble a stick of gum and currently (09/02) come in sizes from 4mb up to 128mb. also see: flash memory cards/readers
- A flash memory ca...
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| memory stick pro | - The year 2003 upgrade to sony`s memory stick flash cards. the new ms pro cards are available in 256mb, 512mb and 1gb capacities and offer faster read/write times. all of sony`s digicams made i...
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| microdrive | - Ibm/hitachi miniature hard disk drive for digital cameras and pda devices. packaged in a compactflash type ii housing and available in 170mb, 340mb, 512mb, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb capacities. see my use...
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| minicd | - The small diameter (3-inch) cd discs. -r and -r/w discs are used in the sony mavica cd series (cd200, cd250, cd300, cd400 and cd1000) digicams. their maximum capacity is ~165mb
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| motion jpeg | - A video sequence composed of a sequence of jpeg compressed images. abbreviated to mpeg (see meg below).
- A video clip composed of a sequence of jpeg compressed images. sometimes abbr...
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| movie clip | - A sequence of motion captured in avi, mov or mpeg format. some digital cameras can capture short movie sequences, some can also record the sound.
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| mpeg-ex | Motion jpeg movie file created by sony cameras. this was the first motion video recording sequence mode that was limited in length only by the amount of available storage space. |
| mpeg-hqx | - Motion jpeg movie file created by year 2002 sony cameras that incorporates the mpeg-hq (high quality, full-screen) and the unlimited recording capability of mpeg-ex in 320x240 resolution.
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| mpeg-vx | - Motion jpeg movie file created by year 2003 sony digicams. it is vga resolution (640x480) at 16fps with audio and the length is limited only by available storage space. vx fine is 30fps, very ...
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| multi zone focusing | - Many digital cameras now offer multi zone focusing. the camera will automatically determine which zone (center, left, right, upper, lower) to use to perform the auto focusing. you no longer ha...
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| multi-pattern metering | - Exposure is determined by reading many different zones in the frame. this yields a more optimum exposure than those cameras using only a central zone metering system.
- Exposure is de...
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| multi-point focusing | - The autofocus systems uses several different portions of the image to determine the proper focus.
- The autofocus systems uses several different portions of the image to determine the...
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| nicd | - Nickel cadmium (aka nicad), a type of rechargeable battery. nicad was the original type of rechargeable battery and has been pretty much replaced by the nimh type.
- Nickel cadmium (n...
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| nimh | - Nickel-metal hydride, a type of rechargeable battery. is the more modern type of rechargeable battery and has been touted as having no memory effect as is common with nicad type batteries when...
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| oled - organic light emitting diode | Oled organic light emitting diode newly developed display technology that could replace lcd. oled does not require a backlight like lcd displays and therefore is more energy efficient which is imp... |
| optical zoom | - Means that the camera has a real multi-focal length lens, this is not the same as a digital zoom which magnifies the center portion of the picture.
- Another name for a zoom lens, whi...
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| orf | - Olympus raw format. the unprocessed image format created by olympus e10, e20 and c-5050 zoom cameras.
- (olympus raw format). the un-processed image format created by modern olympus d...
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| orientation sensor | - A special sensor in some cameras that knows when your turn the camera in portrait orientation to take a vertical shot and tells the camera to display it that way later when viewed on the tv sc...
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| overexposure | - An image that appears too light. all the highlights and colors are totally lost and usually unrecoverable even by software.
- The result of recording too much light when taking a pict...
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| panorama | - Capturing a series of images to create a picture wider than what you could capture in a single image. requires special stitching software to combine and blend the images into one finished imag...
панорама; панорама;; панорамировать; |
| pc card | - Refers to a credit card-sized device which can be a flash memory card, a network card, a modem or even a hard drive. comes in two flavors: type i/ii which is a single slot height and type iii ...
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