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Important DSLR and general photography term explanations.

Category: Engineering

Company: Canon, Inc.

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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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Lens whose focal length (mm) can be changed continuously within a set range. It is like having several single focal length lenses in one lens.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Lenses whose focal length is longer than 50mm. Such lenses are effective for shooting faraway subjects, making them look closer. They also have a narrow depth of field, making the background blur ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Small images shown on the camera's LCD monitor or personal computer screen serving as a visual index to images.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Computer file format used to store bit-mapped graphic images; represented as dots in rows and columns. TIFF file names end with the designation .TIF. TIFF files can store images in a wide variety of ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This is a perspective control lens that allows the photographer to control the appearance of perspective by re-orientating the lens in relationship to the sensor, mimicking certain view camera ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

A term used to describe the tone ranging from an image’s darkest shadow through to the brightest highlight details, including all of the transitions in between.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Through the lens flash metering where one or more small flashes, called "pre-flashes", are emitted. The light returning through the lens is measured and this value is used to calculate the amount of ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

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