Digital camera

Digital camera

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

Industry: Consumer electronics

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GIF 89a

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The most recent GIF standard that allows the selection of area for transparency. The primary use is on the Internet and other on-line services. Like GIF it is 256 colour or 8 bit imaging.

Pronounced "Gooey." Stands for Graphic User Interface. Refers a programme interface that takes advantage of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program, itself, easier to use. PowerShot ...

Indexed colour

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Reduced colour mapping, 8 bit or less. Done to reduce images to their smallest size. Commonly used for images placed on home pages of the Internet. The 256 colour palette are also mapped for best ...

Interpolation

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Method used in software to augment the resolution of an image map. The software adds pixels to an image based on the value of surrounding pixels, thereby increasing its resolution. This method can ...

Jaggies

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A.k.a. pixelization. Term for the stair-stepped appearance of a curved or angled line in digital imaging. The smaller the pixels and the greater their number, the less apparent the "jaggies".

Kilobyte

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

1,024 bytes, written KB, used to refer to size of files, which relates to the amount of information in a file.

Lossy

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Data compression techniques that reduce some detail of a digital image are described as being "lossy." Most video compression techniques utilise lossy compression.