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Digital Photography terms

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Term
Definition
Aperture   show
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Camera   show
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Converging or convex lens   show
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show Uses an electronic image sensor to digitally record an image.  
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dSLR   show
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show a set of overlapping metal plates that expand out to allow more light or fold in on each other to reduce the amount of light.  
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show Crops the image and enlarges the cropped image to fill the frame of the camera.  
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show The distance between the lens and the film, when the lens is focused at an infinite distance.  
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show Stands for “Joint Photo Experts Group”; the default file format in many digital cameras on the market today.  
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Large and medium format cameras   show
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show “A ground or molded piece of glass, plastic, or other transparent material with opposite surfaces either or both of which are curved, by means of which light rays are refracted so that they converge or diverge to form an image.”  
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show Works like a telephoto lens; the image quality remains the same as the image is magnified.  
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show Five-sided mirror whose job it is to flip the light from the image so that the image appears right side up rather than the shows the inverted image that first occurs.  
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show The smallest unit of the picture that can be controlled.  
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Point and shoot camera   show
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show A file format that is offered on some digital cameras. This file saves the actual data, which are not processed by the camera  
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show The equivalent of film speed on a digital camera. Shutter Opens and closes between the film and the lens, letting light in only when you have told the camera to do so.  
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show The length of time that light is let into the camera to expose the film.  
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show Tells the size of the grain in film.  
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Telephoto lenses   show
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show a lossless file format. White balance An adjustment that can be made to the color so that whites will appear white and not yellow or blue in the photograph.  
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Wide-angle lens   show
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