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Digital camera

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

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Macro lens

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A lens that allows users to take close-up photographs.

Microdrives

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Developed by IBM, microdrives are extremely small hard discs that can fit in a CompactCard memory slot. Two drive capacities will be available 170 MB and 340MB, enabling digital cameras designed to ...

Optical Zoom

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

An optical zoom is made to bring you closer to your subject, without you having to move. Zooms are constructed to allow a continuously variable focal length, without disturbing focus. To achieve ...

Over-exposure

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Expression used to indicate that the light sensitive material has been excessively exposed. This can be the result of light that is either too bright, or has been allowed to act for too long. In ...

Parallax

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The difference between the image seen by a viewing system and that recorded by the sensor or the film. As subjects move closer to the lens, the variance increases. Only through the lens (TTL) viewing ...

PCMCIA Card

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association card. PCMCIA cards are about the size of a credit card and these PC Cards have been developed to be a standard for hardware capability ...

PICT

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The PICT format was originally developed by Apple Computer in the mid-1980s. The PICT format supports RGB files with a single alpha channel, and indexed-color, grayscale, and Bitmap files without ...

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