Digital camera

Digital camera

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

Industry: Consumer electronics

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Developer

Information industry; Digital camera

In computing terms, a developer is a programmer who is actively working on the creation of a new software application or product.

GIF

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and ...

GIF 89a

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The most recent GIF standard that allows the selection of area for transparency. The primary use is on the Internet and other on-line services. Like GIF it is 256 color or 8 bit imaging.

Pronounced "Gooey." Stands for Graphic User Interface. Refers a program interface that takes advantage of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program, itself, easier to use. PowerShot ...

Indexed Color

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Reduced Color mapping, 8 bit or less. Done to reduce images to their smallest size. Commonly used for images placed on home pages of the Internet. The 256 color palette are also mapped for best ...

Interpolation

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Method used in software to augment the resolution of an image map. The software adds pixels to an image based on the value of surrounding pixels, thereby increasing its resolution. This method can ...

Jaggies

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

a.k.a. pixelization. Term for the stair-stepped appearance of a curved or angled line in digital imaging. The smaller the pixels and the greater their number, the less apparent the "jaggies".