Digital camera

Digital camera

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

Industry: Consumer electronics

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RGB

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Red green blue. Computers and other digital devices handle color information as shades of red, green and blue. A 24-bit digital camera, for example, will have 8 bits per channel in red green and ...

Shutter

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A mechanism in the camera that controls how much light reaches the film.

Shutter speed

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The length of time the shutter remains open when the shutter release is activated, expressed in fractions of seconds.

A user looking through the viewfinder on this type of camera actually looks through the picture-taking lens, thanks to a series of mirrors and prisms within the camera. This is a very improved type ...

Software

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Operating instructions for specific task based applications. The computer's processor carries out these instructions. Software has to be written for a specific computer Operating System (OS). Canon ...

Spot metering

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

In this type of metering, a central spot of the frame is utilized to measure the light that is coming off the subject. The measuring spot is often indicated by the viewfinder of the camera. Used ...

TIFF

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

The Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF) is used to exchange files between applications and computer platforms. TIFF is a flexible bitmap image format supported by virtually all paint, image-editing, and ...