Video camera

Video camera

Camcorders, blueray video camaras

Industry: Recording equipment

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Consumer electronics; Video camera

Indicates the sampling applied to the Y/R-Y/B-Y components of an analog video signal when it is converted into a digital signal. The three numbers indicate the ratio of the sampling rates applied to ...

0 LuxShot

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Technique allowing pictures to be shot without visible light. The camera is switched to its infrared sensitivity mode and infrared lighting (built-in to Sony IR sensitive cameras) is used to ...

auto exposure (AE)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Combined use of AGC and iris motor control allows shooting in a broad range of lighting conditions. AGC amplifies the video signal in low light conditions, iris reduces it in high light conditions. ...

sensitivity

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Lens iris aperture required to provide a video output signal of standard level at a specified light input. In general, sensitivity is measured using an 89.9% reflectance grey scale chart illuminated ...

signal to noise ratio (S/N)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

The ratio, usually expressed in dB (decibels), between the normal signal output and the noise level within an electronic signal.

smear

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Undesirable artifact of CCDs that appears in the picture as a vertical streak above and below a very bright object in the scene. Smear is caused by parasitic light getting into the vertical transfer ...

slow shutter

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Shutter mode with an integration time longer than 1/50 s (PAL) or 1/60 s (NTSC). Like long-term integration, the slow shutter function increases camera sensitivity when shooting slow-moving or fixed ...