| A | B |
| f-stops | How aperture is measured |
| exposure | How light or dark an image is |
| focus | causing light to form a point on a camera sensor |
| ISO | Light sensitivity of your camera's sensor |
| Manual mode | allows the photographer to set the exposure |
| Manual focus | the photographer focuses the lens |
| light meter | based on middle gray, indicates if your camera thinks your camera is over or under exposed |
| SD card | Storage for your camera |
| Aperture | The opening in the lens |
| Noise | Little flecks in an image |
| Shutter | Opens and closes to let light into the camera |
| Shutter Release | The button you press to take the picture. |
| Viewfinder | The rectangle you look through to take the picture |
| Shutter speed | The duration of time in which light is allowed to strike the sensor |
| Viewfinder | The rectangle you look through to take the picture |
| Shutter Speed | measured in seconds |
| Depth of Field | Range of distances within the scene that will record as sharp |
| Lens | A combination of shaped glasses and air spaces set in a specific arrangement within a barrel |
| Ambient light | The light in the scene |
| Artificial light | Any light not directly produced by the sun |
| Bulb | Shutter opens as long as the shutter release is pressed |
| Focal Length | The distance from the lens to the sensor that focuses light at infinity |
| Frame | To compose a picture |
| Hot Shoe | The mount on the camera body in which electronic flashes are secured |
| Infinity | Lens distance scale |