15 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Recording equipment > Video camera
Video camera
Camcorders, blueray video camaras
Industry: Recording equipment
Add a new termContributors in Video camera
Video camera
U and V
Consumer electronics; Video camera
The names given to the two video color difference signals (R-Y and B-Y) in their coded form in the PAL or NTSC color systems. See also Y/R-Y/B-Y.
ultra mount
Consumer electronics; Video camera
Type of camera mount in which there is 6.7 mm clearance between the lens rear mounting surface and the camera’s CCD.
automatic gain control (AGC)
Consumer electronics; Video camera
Circuitry that automatically adjusts the electronic amplification of the video signal to compensate for varying levels of scene illumination.
autofocus (AF)
Consumer electronics; Video camera
Available in cameras equipped with motorized focus, this feature provides automatic adjustment of the focus. AF operates by varying the focus to maximize the high frequency content of the central ...
aliasing
Consumer electronics; Video camera
Interference phenomenon which occurs when a sampled signal contains frequencies that are higher than half the sampling frequency. A CCD samples the picture spatially. An optical low-pass filter is ...
aspect ratio
Consumer electronics; Video camera
The ratio of width over height of an image, 4:3 for a standard TV image, 16:9 for wide screen.
aperture correction
Consumer electronics; Video camera
Camera signal processing function which adjusts the enhancement of edges of objects in a picture.
