Video camera

Video camera

Camcorders, blueray video camaras

Industry: Recording equipment

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S-Video (Y/C)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Separate signals for the Luminance and Chrominance parts of the video signal. Allows higher picture resolution and suppresses cross color effects. Connector is the 4-pin mini-DIN.

zoom triggered AF

Consumer electronics; Video camera

The camera is normally in fixed focus mode, but AF (Auto Focus) is temporarily switched on each time the zoom ratio of the camera lens is changed.

Y/R-Y/B-Y

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Three signals, luminance (Y) and two color difference signals R-Y (red minus luminance) and B-Y (blue minus luminance) which together carry the brightness and color information of color images . ...

This function is designed to capture fast moving, full frame images by firing a strobe light in a dark lighting condition. The camera synchronizes the timing of the external trigger and can output a ...

square pixel

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Used to qualify a CCD sensor where the centers of the pixels are equally spaced horizontally and vertically. Pictures captured from this type of non-square pixel sensor need to be software corrected ...

synchronisation (Sync)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

When synchronized, the horizontal and vertical timing of a camera output are locked to an external signal coming, for example, from another camera. Picture outputs from both sources are then ...

subcarrier

Consumer electronics; Video camera

The 4.43 MHz (PAL) or 3.59 MHz (NTSC) signal that is used as a carrier for the color information. This subcarrier is modulated in amplitude by the color saturation and in phase by the color hue. A ...