Finding a Digital Camera for Great eBay Product Images
Buying a digital camera makes sense if you're going to do a lot of selling on eBay. When you start looking for a new digital camera, you need to look for certain features, such as a quality lens, a tripod mount, and removable media, to get the most out of your camera and take great eBay photos. The following features will ensure high-quality images and ease of use:
Quality lens: Really cheap cameras have plastic lenses, and the quality of the resulting pictures is accordingly lousy. Be sure to buy a camera from a company known for making quality products.
Removable media: Here’s a starter list of removable storage media to quickly get your images from your camera to your computer:
CompactFlash memory card: This is slightly smaller than a matchbook. CompactFlash cards come in different sizes and hold from 16MB to 16GB.
Secure Digital (SD) card: The size of a postage stamp, this is one of the most durable of the small media. It uses metal connector contacts (rather than pins and plugs like other cards), making it less prone to damage. These cards can hold up to 32GB of data.
You'll find many sizes and adapters for SD cards.Mini and Micro Secure Digital (SD) cards: The mini version is about the size of a postage stamp, and the micro is about the size of a pinky nail and can hold up to an astounding 12GB.
SmartMedia cards: A SmartMedia card is slightly smaller than a CompactFlash card and is used in only a few brands of digital cameras. SmartMedia cards don't hold as much data — from 8MB to 128MB.
Memory Stick: A tiny media card, the Memory Stick is a Sony device used in most Sony products. Memory Sticks now hold as much as 2GB.
Mini CD, CD/RW, or DVD: These optical discs hold tons of pictures, and you can read them right in your computer’s CD or DVD reader. Check out your disc platter, and you’ll notice a smaller, round indentation; that’s what holds the mini disc.
If your computer doesn't have ports for the removeable media you choose, you can always find an adapter that connects to your computer through a USB port.
Optical zoom versus digital zoom: Find a camera with the highest-power optical zoom that you can afford. Optical zoom is magnified by the camera’s lens (using the camera’s internal optics), producing a vivid picture. When your camera uses digital zoom, it does the same thing as enlarging a picture in photo-editing software, which can make the picture slightly fuzzy.
Tripod mount: Tripods help you avoid blurring your pictures. To use a tripod, you need a tripod mount, a little screw-hole at the bottom of some cameras.
Macro setting capability or threading for a lens adapter: These features come in handy for photographs of coins, jewelry, and small, detailed items. A camera’s macro setting enables you to get in really close to items while keeping them in focus. A threaded lens mount is an alternative that enables you to add different types of lenses to the camera for macro focus or other uses.
Battery life: The last thing you want to do is run out of juice at the wrong moment:
Look for a camera battery with at least three hours of photo-taking time.
Consider buying a spare battery.
Invest in a charger and rechargeable batteries. These batteries last a long time and are worth the investment.
Digital Photography GlossaryDevice used to attach certain lenses or filters to your digital camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe leading professional image-editing program for your computer.
Digital Photography GlossaryA program that enables you to view one or several of your images at the same time, all in one easily navigated workspace.
Digital Photography GlossaryA less expensive version of Photoshop with fewer of the ultra-high-end features the professional version includes.
Digital Photography GlossaryA process that smoothes the rough edges or jaggies in images by creating partially transparent pixels along the boundaries that are merged into a smoother line by our eyes.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn opening made by an adjustable diaphragm, which permits light to enter the camera lens and reach the image sensor.
Digital Photography GlossaryA semi-automatic exposure mode; the photographer sets the aperture, and the camera selects the appropriate shutter speed to produce a good exposure.
Digital Photography GlossaryA digital camera mode in which both the aperture and shutter speed are set automatically.
Digital Photography GlossaryA digital camera feature that turns off the camera after a certain time period of inactivity.
Digital Photography GlossaryA feature that puts the camera in control of choosing the proper exposure settings.
Digital Photography GlossaryA camera setting that allows the camera to choose the correct focus distance for you, usually based on the contrast of an image or set by a mechanism, such as an infrared sensor, that measures the actual distance to the subject.
Digital Photography GlossaryA lighting effect produced when the main light source is located behind the subject. Backlighting is also a technology for illuminating an LCD display from the rear, making it easier to view under high ambient lighting conditions.
Digital Photography GlossaryAttachments for flash devices that feature movable flaps, which allow you to finely tune light output.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device that recharges rechargeable batteries by connecting to a power source.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device that holds multiple batteries with which you can power your digital camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryRefers to the number of bits available to store color information. A standard digital camera image has a bit depth of 24 bits. Images with more than 24 bits are called high-bit images.
Digital Photography GlossaryShort for Web log. A Web site where journal-like entries are made and displayed in reverse chronological order.
Digital Photography GlossaryTerm to describe an image or part of an image that’s over-exposed with no detail.
Digital Photography GlossaryShooting mode in which you choose both aperture and shutter speed.
Digital Photography GlossaryA Windows bitmap file format; the default graphic created by Windows graphics programs.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe quality of the out-of-focus areas of an image that a lens produces.
Digital Photography GlossaryTaking a series of photographs of the same subject at different settings to help ensure that one setting will be the correct one.
Digital Photography GlossaryRange of options that gives you limited or total control of picture-taking settings.
Digital Photography GlossaryA digital camera’s internal memory, which stores an image immediately after it was taken until the image can be written to the camera’s memory or a memory card.
Digital Photography GlossaryShooting mode in which the shutter stays open so long as the shutter button is fully depressed.
Digital Photography GlossaryA special capture setting, offered on some digital cameras, that records several images in rapid succession with one press of the shutter button. Also called continuous capture mode.
Digital Photography GlossaryA variation on the camera bag that you strap across your back.
Digital Photography GlossaryA portable container for your camera and any additional photography equipment (such as lenses and extra batteries).
Digital Photography GlossaryA padded, protective container in which you can store your digital camera when not using it.
Digital Photography GlossaryA kind of wagon that lets you roll your camera/tripod rig back and forth, as needed.
Digital Photography GlossaryA file format offered by some digital cameras; records the photo without applying any of the in-camera processing that is usually done automatically when saving photos in other formats. Also known as Raw.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe resolution of an image that you take with your digital camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device into which you insert a digital camera’s memory card, then attach to your computer to make that memory card appear as just another drive to your computer.
Digital Photography GlossaryShort for charge-coupled device. One of two types of imaging sensors used in digital cameras.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device on a computer that allows you to copy (or burn) information to a CD-ROM.
Digital Photography GlossaryA compact disc that functions as read-only memory, used to store programs and data files.
Digital Photography GlossaryMetering mode that reads the entire scene but gives more emphasis to the subject in the center of the frame.
Digital Photography GlossaryA variation of a traditional camera bag with which you can harness your camera and equipment to your chest.
Digital Photography GlossaryA set of functions and messages that enable applications to transfer data.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe area of a digital image that you want to clone.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe process of copying one area of a digital photo and “painting” the copy onto another area or picture.
Digital Photography GlossaryA lens add-on, resembling a filter, that allows you to take pictures at a distance that is less than the closest-focusing distance of the prime lens alone.
Digital Photography GlossaryPronounced see-moss. A much easier way to say complementary metal-oxide semiconductor. A type of imaging sensor used in digital cameras; used less often than CCD chips.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe print color model in which cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks are mixed to produce colors.
Digital Photography GlossaryA tinge of color that discolors your image in whole or in part.
Digital Photography GlossaryA printer in which a laser beam produces electric charges on a drum, which rolls toner onto the paper. Heat is applied to the page to permanently affix the toner to the page.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe purity of color; the amount by which a pure color is diluated with white or gray.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe arrangement of the main subject, other objects in a scene, and/or the foreground and background.
Digital Photography GlossaryA process that reduces the size of the image file by eliminating some image data.
Digital Photography GlossaryA mode in which the camera updates focus when the subject moves as long as you continue pressing the shutter button halfway.
Digital Photography GlossaryA mode in which the camera continues taking pictures as long as you press the shutter button.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe range of difference in the light to dark areas of a photo.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn image distortion that makes vertical structures appear to lean toward the center of the frame.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn image-editing program that allows you to do all the standard image-editing activities and includes photographer-quality tools.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn easy-to-use image-editing program that includes basic fixes and guided projects.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn image-editing program with a fairly comprehensive set of retouching tools, but it’s not quite as tool-rich as Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. It comes as a part of the CorelDRAW graphics suite.
Digital Photography GlossaryA bundle of image-editing software (described as a graphics suite). It includes tools for vector illustration and page layout, photo editing, and bitmap to vector tracing.
Digital Photography GlossaryTo trim an image or page by adjusting its boundaries.
Digital Photography GlossaryCathode ray tube. A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe breaking up of a ray of light into dark and light bands or into the colors of the spectrum, caused by the interference of one part of a beam with another.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe zone of sharp focus in a photograph.
Digital Photography GlossaryA thin screen-like material that diffuses or softens a light source’s illumination.
Digital Photography GlossaryA feature offered on most digital cameras; crops the perimeter of the image and then enlarges the area at the center. Results in reduced image quality.
Digital Photography GlossaryA viewfinder feature that corrects for common eyeglass prescriptions so eyeglass wearers can use the viewfinder without wearing their glasses.
Digital Photography GlossaryRemove pixels from a digital image.
Digital Photography GlossaryStands for digital print order format. A feature offered by some digital cameras that enables you to add print instructions to the image file; some photo printers can read that information when printing your pictures directly from a memory card.
Digital Photography GlossarySetting that determines whether a camera takes a single picture or a series of pictures.
Digital Photography GlossarySoftware that enables a computer to interact with a digital camera, printer, or other device.
Digital Photography GlossaryDigital video disc. A high-density compact disc for storing large amounts of data, especially high-resolution audio/video material.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device that allows you to copy (or burn) information onto a DVD.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device that displays the information contained on a DVD.
Digital Photography GlossaryDigital Video Interface. A specification to accommodate analog and digital monitors with the same cable.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of printer that uses a printing technique in which inks are heated and transferred to a polyester substrate to form an image.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn area where neighboring image pixels are significantly different in color; in other words, an area of high contrast.
Digital Photography GlossaryExchangeable Image File Format. Developed to standardize the exchange of image data between hardware devices and software.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe amount of light allowed to reach the film or sensor, determined by the intensity of the light, the amount admitted by the iris of the lens, and the length of time determined by the shutter speed.
Digital Photography GlossaryA setting used to increase or decrease the exposure manually when the camera gets it wrong.
Digital Photography GlossaryEV settings are a way of adding or decreasing exposure without the need to reference f-stops or shutter speeds. For example, if you tell your camera to add +1EV, it will provide twice as much exposure by using a larger f-stop, slower shutter speed, or both.
Digital Photography GlossaryA camera attachment that moves your camera lens farther from the sensor, enlarging the image captured by the camera. Also called a lens extender.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe distance your eye can be from the camera viewfinder’s window and still see the entire view.
Digital Photography GlossaryA small bag worn around the waist like a belt.
Digital Photography GlossaryA position, represented by a square, where an image-editing program anchors a magnetic selection outline.
Digital Photography GlossaryTo fade the borders of an image element so that it blends more smoothly with another layer.
Digital Photography GlossaryA way of storing image data in a file.
Digital Photography GlossaryAlso called forced flash. A camera setting that causes the electronic flash to always fire, which produces the effect of filling in shadows in brightly illuminated images.
Digital Photography GlossaryIn photography, a device that fits over the lens, changing the light in some way. In image editing, a feature that changes the pixels in an image to produce blurring, sharpening, and other special effects.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device on your camera that fires a burst of light when you take a picture to illuminate your subject.
Digital Photography GlossaryCapturing a series of photos, each with a different exposure, by pressing the camera’s shutter button once.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe distance between the film and the optical center of the lens when the lens is focused on infinity, usually measured in millimeters.
Digital Photography GlossaryTo adjust the lens to produce a sharp image.
Digital Photography GlossaryIn photography, composing your image in the viewfinder. In composition, using elements of an image to form a sort of picture frame around an important subject.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe default kind of electronic flash synchronization technique. The flash fires at the beginning of the exposure — in the instant that the first curtain of the focal plane shutter finishes its movement across the film or sensor plane.
Digital Photography GlossaryRefers to the size of the camera aperture. A higher number indicates a smaller aperture. Written as f/2, f/8, and so on.
Digital Photography GlossaryFile Transfer Protocol. A set of communication rules that allow data or files to be transferred between computers over a network.
Digital Photography GlossaryShort for graphics interchange format. A file format often used for Web graphics; not suitable for photos because it can’t handle more than 256 colors.
Digital Photography GlossaryA graph that maps out brightness values in a digital image; usually found inside exposure-correction filter dialog boxes.
Digital Photography GlossaryA kind of tape whose two sides adhere to each other, with one having rough hooks and the other soft, fuzzy material.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe device on a camera that holds an external flash and provides an electronic connection to the camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryA bright area in a photograph that come from reflections on eyeglasses or unevenly spread lighting.
Digital Photography GlossaryHypertext Markup Language. A computer language used to structure text and multimedia documents, and to set hyperlinks between documents; used for display on the Internet.
Digital Photography GlossaryA digital camera’s solid-state capture device, made up of a grid-like arrangement of red-, green-, and blue-sensitive elements.
Digital Photography GlossarySetting that helps correct for any up-and-down movement you make while pressing the shutter button.
Digital Photography GlossaryUsing film, a filter, or a censor that is sensitive to infrared light and also blocks visible light. The effect produces a dreamlike effect, with dark skies and brightly colored foliage.
Digital Photography GlossaryA computer connection point that lets you transfer computer data from one device to another by using pulses of infrared light, rather than a physical wire.
Digital Photography GlossaryA printer that works by forcing little drops of ink through nozzles onto the paper.
Digital Photography GlossaryTraditionally, a measure of film speed; the higher the number, the faster the film. On a digital camera, raising the ISO allows faster shutter speed, smaller aperture, or both, but also can result in a grainy image.
Digital Photography GlossaryInternet Service Provider. A company that supplies your Internet access for a fee.
Digital Photography GlossaryPronounced jay-peg. The primary file format used by digital cameras; also the leading format for online and Web pictures. Uses lossy compression, which sometimes damages image quality.
Digital Photography GlossaryA camera setting that creates both a Camera Raw file and a JPEG file of a picture.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe orientation of an image in which the longest dimension is horizontal; also called wide orientation.
Digital Photography GlossaryA way of managing elements of an image in stackable overlays that can be manipulated separately, moved to a different stacking order, or made partially or fully transparent.
Digital Photography GlossaryA four-sided awning that covers a digital camera’s LCD screen from bright sunlight, making the LCD easier to view.
Digital Photography GlossaryStands for liquid crystal display. The display screen included on most digital cameras.
Digital Photography GlossaryLight Emitting Diode. A lighting technology used in many electronic devices.
Digital Photography GlossaryOne or more elements of optical glass or similar material designed to collect and focus rays of light to form a sharp image on the film, paper, sensor, or screen.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device that shades the lens, protecting it from extraneous light outside the actual picture area that can reduce the contrast of the image.
Digital Photography GlossaryA plastic dome that diffuses light and eliminates reflections in photographs. You place the objects you want to shoot under this dome.
Digital Photography GlossaryA white cloth teepee-shaped tent that diffuses light and eliminates reflections in photographs. You place the objects you want to shoot inside this tent.
Digital Photography GlossaryA file-compression scheme that doesn’t sacrifice any vital image data in the compression process. Lossless compression tosses only redundant data, so image quality is unaffected.
Digital Photography GlossaryA compression scheme that eliminates important image data in the name of achieving smaller file sizes. High amounts of lossy compression reduce image quality.
Digital Photography GlossaryA lens that provides continuous focusing from infinity to extreme close-ups, often to a reproduction ratio of 1:2 (half life-size) or 1:1 (life-size).
Digital Photography GlossaryThe dotted outline that results when you select a portion of your image; sometimes referred to as marching ants.
Digital Photography GlossaryIn an image editor, selecting an area of an image to prevent that area from being modified accidentally.
Digital Photography GlossaryAlso called multizone metering. A metering mode that calculates exposure based on the entire frame.
Digital Photography GlossaryOne million pixels.
Digital Photography GlossaryA camera’s removable storage media.
Digital Photography GlossaryExtra data that gets stored along with the primary image data in an image file. Metadata often includes information such as aperture, shutter speed, and EV setting used to capture the picture, and can be viewed using special software. Often referred to as EXIF metadata.
Digital Photography GlossaryRefers to the way a camera’s autoexposure mechanism reads the light in a scene.
Digital Photography GlossaryA multimedia presentation program.
Digital Photography GlossaryParts of an image with tones of an intermediate value, usually in the 25 to 75 percent range.
Digital Photography GlossaryIncandescent lamps built into a studio flash that give you a preview of exactly how the light from the flash will look.
Digital Photography GlossaryA belt that can hold a variety of photography equipment.
Digital Photography GlossaryA one-legged support, or unipod, used to steady the camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryA setting that allows the camera to find more than one area of contrast to focus on.
Digital Photography GlossaryA technique in which a small aperture gives you a long exposure, allowing your subjects to move within the frame during shooting, which creates a photo that looks like it has been exposed more than once.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn online discussion forum where people with similar interests send messages back and forth about a particular topic.
Digital Photography GlossaryA special program, or client, through which you can access newsgroups.
Digital Photography GlossaryGraininess in an image, caused by too little light, a too high ISO setting, or a defect in the electrical signal generated during the image-capture process.
Digital Photography GlossaryInternet sharing services that allow you to post your images to the Web.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe degree to which a layer allows layers beneath it to show through.
Digital Photography GlossaryA glass-covered opening in your camera that you can look through to frame and compose your image.
Digital Photography GlossaryA traditional zoom lens; has the effect of bringing the subject closer and shortening depth of field.
Digital Photography GlossaryWhen too much light hits the camera’s film or image-sensor array, resulting in a washed-out image.
Digital Photography GlossaryA broad view, usually scenic. Some digital cameras also have a panorama mode used with software to stitch the images together.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe difference in views between the lens taking the photo and the external optical viewfinder.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device attached to your computer that allows another device attached to it to register on the computer and be used as if it was directly connected to that computer.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of removable memory card used in some digital cameras. Also called PCMCIA Card (PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association).
Digital Photography GlossaryA digital camera built into a cell phone.
Digital Photography GlossaryA full-color printer that can produce photo prints.
Digital Photography GlossaryA particle of light.
Digital Photography GlossaryA universal standard that allows digital cameras and photo printers to connect directly by USB cable, without the computer serving as a middleman. Any PictBridge camera can connect to any PictBridge printer, regardless of whether both are made by the same manufacturer.
Digital Photography GlossaryPrint Image Matching. A proprietary Epson camera technology that saves image information to assist in printing a digital image more accurately.
Digital Photography GlossaryA camera whose lens is covered except for a pin-sized hole. You have a very small aperture, so you have to shoot long exposures.
Digital Photography GlossaryShort for picture element. The basic building block of every image.
Digital Photography GlossaryA small program or utility that runs within another, larger program. Many special-effects filters operate as plug-ins to major photo-editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Digital Photography GlossaryA file format designed to work well with online viewing applications.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of digital camera that has automatic settings for most features (such as focus and exposure).
Digital Photography GlossaryCamera filter that reduces the glare bouncing off shiny surfaces in your photos. Can also help deepen the contrast of the sky from certain angles.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe orientation of an image in which the longest dimension is vertical, also called tall orientation.
Digital Photography GlossaryStands for pixels per inch. Used to state image print resolution. Measured in terms of the number of pixels per linear inch. A higher ppi usually translates to better-looking printed images.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe number of pixels per linear inch (ppi) in a printed photo; the user sets this value inside a photo-editing program.
Digital Photography GlossaryAlso called native format. The format used by only that particular type of camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryA digital camera model that includes many features on professional cameras but also offers automatic settings.
Digital Photography GlossaryShort for personal storage device. A standalone battery-operated burner or hard drive.
Digital Photography GlossaryA mount on some digital cameras that allows you to easily attach the camera to a tripod.
Digital Photography GlossaryRandom Access Memory. Your computer’s system memory.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of camera that includes a focusing mechanism which allows the photographer to measure the subject distance and take photographs in sharp focus.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn electronic flash synchronization technique in which the flash fires only when the second (rear) curtain of the focal plane shutter begins to move at the end of the exposure.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn effect from flash photography that appears to make a person or animal’s eyes glow red. Caused by light bouncing from the retina of the eye.
Digital Photography GlossaryA term used to describe the capabilities of digital cameras, scanners, printers, and monitors; means different things depending on the device.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe standard color model for digital images; all colors are created by mixing red, green, and blue light.
Digital Photography GlossaryA way of mentally dividing your picture horizontally and vertically into thirds, then placing important subject matter where these lines intersect.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe number of pixels both horizontally and vertically in each squared inch scanned by a scanner or recorded by a digital camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryA device that captures an image of a piece of artwork, a slide, or a negative, and then converts it to a digitized image or bitmap that the computer can handle.
Digital Photography GlossaryDigital camera’s special picture-taking modes that are designed to automatically set all the available focus and exposure controls for a certain type of subject matter.
Digital Photography GlossaryMechanism that delays the opening of the shutter for some seconds after the release has been operated.
Digital Photography GlossaryDevices modeled after rifle stocks that brace the camera lens into your shoulder, thus helping hold it steady.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe device in a camera that opens and shuts to allow light into the camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe button on your digital camera that you press to take a picture.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe length of time that the camera shutter remains open, thereby allowing light to enter the camera and expose the photograph.
Digital Photography GlossaryA semi-automatic exposure mode in which the photographer sets the shutter speed and the camera selects the appropriate aperture.
Digital Photography GlossaryA setting in which the camera focuses on a single object.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn accessory flash unit that supplements the main flash, usually triggered electronically when the slave senses the light output by the main unit.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of camera that includes interchangeable lenses, manual focus and exposure controls, and connections for an external flash.
Digital Photography GlossaryA tube-like device that focuses the flash’s light to a very small area.
Digital Photography GlossaryAn attachment that mounts on the head of the flash and extends out about 6 to 8 inches, with a frosted white panel at the end, which softens the light.
Digital Photography GlossaryMetering mode that bases exposure on light in the center of the frame only.
Digital Photography GlossaryCreating a panorama from multiple images by overlapping those images.
Digital Photography GlossaryAnother name for an electronic flash unit, especially when it's used as the only source of illumination.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of digital camera that's small enough to fit comfortably in a shirt pocket.
Digital Photography GlossaryRemovable storage devices; the best-known option is the Zip drive.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe part of a tripod to which the camera attaches that you can move to some degree.
Digital Photography GlossaryA special bracket that fastens to the tripod socket on the bottom of a digital camera; allows you to connect an external flash to your camera.
Digital Photography GlossaryA computer attachment that acts like a pad on which the user can write or draw on a computer.
Digital Photography GlossaryA lightweight tripod with shorter legs than a standard tripod. Also called a mini-tripod.
Digital Photography GlossaryA lens that magnifies an image.
Digital Photography GlossaryPronounced tiff, as in a little quarrel. Stands for tagged image file format. A popular image format supported by most Macintosh and Windows programs.
Digital Photography GlossaryTaking a picture at specified intervals to capture an event occuring over a long period of time.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe range of color or tonal values that will be selected with a tool such as an image editor’s Magic Wand, or filled with paint when using a tool such as the Paint Bucket.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe ink used in photo printers.
Digital Photography GlossaryA three-legged supporting stand used to hold the camera steady. Especially useful when using slow shutter speeds and/or telephoto lenses.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of digital camera that's the size of a credit card, with a depth of less than 1 inch, that fits comfortably in a front jeans pocket.
Digital Photography GlossaryWhen too little light hits the camera’s film or image-sensor array, creating an image that’s too dark.
Digital Photography GlossaryAdd pixels to a digital image.
Digital Photography GlossaryStands for Universal Serial Bus. A type of port now included on most computers. Most digital cameras come with a USB cable for connecting the camera to this port.
Digital Photography GlossaryVideo Graphics Array resolution. A display of 640-x-480 pixels with 16 or 256 colors.
Digital Photography GlossaryA computer adapter card used to manage the display on the monitor.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe device in a camera used to frame the image.
Digital Photography GlossaryTo add dark corners to an image; often produced by using a lens hood that’s too small for the field of view or generated artificially by using image-editing techniques.
Digital Photography GlossarySimple video cameras designed for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
Digital Photography GlossaryAdjusting the camera to compensate for the type of light hitting the photographic subject. Eliminates unwanted color casts produced by some light sources, such as fluorescent office lighting.
Digital Photography GlossaryA lens that has a shorter focal length and a wider field of view than a normal lens for a particular film or digital image format.
Digital Photography GlossaryA step-by-step onscreen guide offered on many computer programs.
Digital Photography GlossaryThe order in which you perform all the various tasks associated with image editing under particular circumstances.
Digital Photography GlossaryA type of removable storage device known as a super floppy drive; store information on Zip disks.
Digital Photography GlossaryA lens that can change focal lengths at your command to provide more or less magnification of the image.
