Commonly used Terms for Digital Cameras

Knowing about the common terms in the field of digital photography will always make your learning about the digital cameras and their use easy. Here are a few terms explained for easier understanding

Automatic Mode — This feature enables automatic setting of the white-balance, exposure and focus.
Continuous Capture Mode or Burst Mode — By enabling this feature, you can choose to capture pictures in continuation at pre-set intervals, with just one click of the button.
Compression — This is the procedure where the text, images and digital data can be compressed by erasing the selected data.
Digital Zoom — This features lets you crop and magnify the center area of the image.
JPEG — This is the format in which the images are saved and compressed in the digital cameras.
Lag Time — This is the time which the camera takes in responding to the click of the button and capturing the actual image.
LCD — The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is the screen on the digital camera to view images.
Lens — This is one of the most important component of a digital camera and is the transparent and circular plastic or glass piece which functions to collect light and focus it over the sensor to trap the still image.
Megabyte — This is the metric term used for the volume of data in a particular file and is equal to 1024KB (Kilobytes). The volume of data that can be stored on a disk, hard drive or memory card is also referred to in Megabytes (MB).
Pixels — These are the small units of colors which combine to form a digital image and the digital resolution id also measured in pixels, wherein one mega-pixel is equivalent to a million pixels.
RGB — This term refers to the Red, Green, Blue colors and are used as primary colors to form other colors on the computer.
Resolution — The image created on a digital camera is dependent on the number of pixels it uses to create an image, as the resolution is based on how much information do these pixels contain. So accordingly as per the number of pixels, the clarity and size of the picture without getting blurred can be determined
Storage Card — This is the memory area or the memory card on which the images are stores like the traditional rolls, but these are quite small and can hold many more images in comparison to the film roles.
Viewfinder — This is the window through which you peep to capture the desired image and compose it.
White Balance — This feature helps in adjusting the surrounding light in the image and balances the incandescent, fluorescent or daylight according to the visibility of naked eye.