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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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This setting works with your camera lens to allow it to focus from a very short distance and allow you to get very close to small objects such as flowers, insects and faces.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

A type of memory card used as recording media by digital cameras. Abbreviation for CompactFlash. It is the most common type of memory card used by digital SLR cameras including EOS digital cameras. ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This is the shaking of the camera caused by unsteady hands during exposure (when the shutter is open), resulting in image blur. The blur is prone to occur with slow shutter speeds and telephoto ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

A flexible cable attached to the camera's shutter release. When the cable is pressed the shutter is tripped and an image is captured.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

A shutter feature enabling long exposures. The shutter remains open while the shutter button is held down. The shutter closes when you let go of the shutter button.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This is a flash technique where the flash is pointed at a white wall or ceiling to bounce the flash before it reaches the subject. This disperses the flash illumination, creating a softer lighting ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This occurs when the subject moves while the shutter is open, causing the subject to look blurred in the picture. Sometimes the subject is deliberately blurred. If it occurs unintentionally, the ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

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