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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 is the image's degree of fine detail.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

fire the flash at just before the second curtain closes. This is called rear (or second) curtain sync, and it is used to freeze motion at the end of the exposure.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

A device that converts the captured scene's brightness and colors into electronic signals. It is equivalent to the "film" in a film camera. CMOS and CCD are the most common types of sensors.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Digital SLR cameras use sensors of different sizes: Full size, APS-H size, and APS-C size. The sensor size affects the angle of view of the attached lens.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This occurs when the image is underexposed and the shadow areas have no detail.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This refers to how distinct the outlines in the image are. High sharpness means that there are no blurry outlines and everything looks very distinct.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

only a small amount of the image is in focus, minimising distracting backgrounds or directing a viewer’s attention to a specific part of a photograph.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

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