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Important DSLR and general photography term explanations.

Category: Engineering

Company: Canon, Inc.

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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

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

This is the image's degree of fine detail.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

The recording media used by digital cameras come in the form of memory cards for saving the captured images as data files. CF (CompactFlash) cards are commonly used by digital SLR cameras such as ...

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

AE (auto exposure) shooting mode where the camera sets both the aperture and shutter speed automatically based on the subject brightness.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This is a Picture Style to make skin tones lighter and softer. Ideal for portraits of babies and women.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

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