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Important DSLR and general photography term explanations.

Category: Engineering

Company: Canon, Inc.

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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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A technique where the flash fires several times during a single exposure, achieving a frozen subjets several times on the one frame

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Opens the shutter longer than normal, then fires the flash, thus lighting the foreground by flash but also correctly exposing the background.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Lenses whose focal length is shorter than 50 mm. Since wide-angle lenses can cover a wider area of the scene and emphasize perspective, they are ideal for shooting landscapes and indoors.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Regardless of the type of lighting, the white areas should look white. To this end, white balance adjusts the color balance electronically. Digital cameras have a feature called auto white balance ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Optical device enabling you to see what's being photographed. With a digital SLR camera, the light from the subject passes through the lens and reaches the eyepiece lens via the reflex mirror and ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

The condition when the amount of light received is less than what the correct exposure requires. The image looks darker than the photographed scene as perceived by the human eye.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

TV mode stands for Time value mode. This gives the photographer Shutter-priority.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

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