Digital camera

Digital camera

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

Industry: Consumer electronics

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Red-eye Reduction

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A system that causes the pupils of a subject to shrink by shining a light prior to the taking of the flash picture. This prevents the red-eye effect.

A reflex camera is one that utilises a mirror system to reflect the light, and therefore the image, coming through the lens, to a visible screen. The image seen in the camera's viewfinder then is the ...

Resolution

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Refers to the number of pixels, both horizontally and vertically, used to either capture an image or display it. The higher the resolution the finer the image detail that can be seen.

Shutter

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A mechanism in the camera that controls how much light reaches the film.

Shutter speed

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The length of time the shutter remains open when the shutter release is activated, expressed in fractions of seconds.

SLR, or single-lens-reflex

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A user looking through the viewfinder on this type of camera actually looks through the picture-taking lens, thanks to a series of mirrors and prisms within the camera. This is a very improved type ...

Software

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Operating instructions for specific task based applications. The computer's processor carries out these instructions. Software has to be written for a specific computer Operating System (OS). Canon ...