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| LCD screen | like a small television built into the back of the digital camera |
| Flash | a flash bulb that is built into the body of the camera. Some are placed on the front of the camera and others sit on top |
| ISO | A rating of a film's sensitivity to light |
| Aliasing | This refers to the jagged appearance of diagonal lines, edges of circles, etc. due to the square nature of pixels, the building blocks of digital images. |
| Golden Rectangle | An image ratio that makes the most pleasing, balanced impression on the viewer, panoramic landscaped, 66:33 ratio |
| Aperture | This refers to the size of the opening in the lens that determines the amount of light falling onto the film or sensor |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device: one of the two main types of image sensors used in digital cameras |
| Burst | Continuous Shooting mode is the digital camera's ability to take several shots immediately one after another |
| Color Temperature | This deals with white balance and how the color of light can change your photographs |
| EXIF | Exchangeable Image File: the file format used by most digital cameras. |
| Autofocus | Focus on a subject, point the camera at it & push the shutter halfway down. The camera will focus, and beep to let you know that it is in focus. When there are multiple focus points, it will light up the focus point is has selected for the shot. |
| Latency | Many digital cameras will take time to process a photo and store it on the internal memory card. This is referred to as the camera's ________ |
| Optical Zoom | This is the number of times the maximum focal length of a zoom lens is larger than the minimum focal length. |
| Exposure | This is the amount of light received by the film or sensor and is determined by how wide you open the lens diaphragm (aperture) |
| Contrast | The difference between the darkest and lightest areas in a photo. The greater the difference, the higher the _____________ |
| Focal Length | The distance from the optical center of a lens to the image plane when the lens is focused to infinity. |
| JPEG | The most commonly used digital image format. Developed by the joint photographic experts group, and is universally compatible with browsers, viewers, and image editing software. |
| Ambient Light | The natural light in a scene. |
| Digital Imaging | The new evolution of the art of photography where images are scanned into an electronic format and then "processed" with software such as Adobe Photoshop |
| Depth of Field | The range of acceptably sharp focus in front and behind the distance the lens is focused on. |
