Digital camera

Digital camera

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

Industry: Consumer electronics

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CMOS

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A type of semiconductor that has been, until the EOS D30, widely unavailable for digital cameras. CMOS semiconductors use two circuits, negative and positive ...

CMY

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. The three colours used to make all other colors. Like CMYK, CMY is used in printing to create the colours seen in a print.

Compact Flash Card

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A digital image storing mechanism that is increasing in popularity and thus functionality. Flash memory is a safe, highly reliable form of storage that doesn't need power to hold the images after ...

Complimentary colour

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

If two colors, combined in the proper proportion form white light, then they are complimentary colors.

Contrast

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The difference between elements in a photograph. Contrast can include the difference between light and dark areas, or a marked difference in colors.

Dark Current

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A.k.a. noise, dark noise. Pixels collect signal-charges in the absence of light over time, which can vary from pixel to pixel, and the result is known as dark current. PowerShot digital cameras ...

Depth-of-field

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The zone of in-focus elements, from front to back. Another way to put this is the range of distance that is acceptably sharp within a photograph. Depth-of field varies inversely with the aperture ...