Digital camera

Digital camera

Any camera that captures images electronically rather than on a reel of film.

Industry: Consumer electronics

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Blade

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The slats that make up the centre of the shutter panel.

Developer

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A chemical solution that changes invisible images exposed on light-sensitive film or paper into a visible image. utilised in traditional camera film processing.

To import digital image files into a software application. The term is often applied differently within different types of software. Users of Canon PowerShot cameras enjoy the easy-to-use and highly ...

Autofocus TTL (through-the-lens)

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Allows the camera to automatically focus through the lens, rather than by moving the lens back and forth manually. See also TTL.

Area CCD

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A square or rectangular CCD that can capture an entire image at once, which is essential for dynamic subjects and flash photography.

Linear CCD

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A.k.a. scanner-type CCD, these sensors are long and thin, and capture an image by recording a vast number of individual "exposures" while scanning across the picture frame. These are best suited for ...

Center-Weighted

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A method of determining the correct exposure for a photograph which gives more importance to the light metre reading at the centre of the frame than to the peripheral areas. This method is often ...