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Canon is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions.
A new external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 12Mbps. USB is expected to completely replace serial and parallel ports. In addition, USB is particularly well suited for high-speed Plug-and-Play downloading of images from your digital camera straight to your PC.
Industry:Consumer electronics
Small Computer System Interface, is an interface for connecting peripherals to computers that allows the daisy-chaining of such devices. It is now widely used for scanners, digital cameras and CD-R drives, all devices that require transferring a large amount of data to the computer. SCSI is faster than RS-232-C, but is still obsolete when compared to the USB interface.
Industry:Consumer electronics
A chemical solution that changes invisible images exposed on light-sensitive film or paper into a visible image. utilised in traditional camera film processing.
Industry:Consumer electronics
To import digital image files into a software application. The term is often applied differently within different types of software. Users of Canon PowerShot cameras enjoy the easy-to-use and highly advanced ImageBrowser (Mac) and ZoomBrowser (PC) softwares.
Industry:Consumer electronics
The A-D Converter converts the analogue signal that is emitted from the image sensor into a digital signal.
Industry:Consumer electronics
A new standard in consumer photography developed by Canon and four other System Developing Companies. It is based on a new film format and innovative film, camera and photofinishing technologies to provide the user simple loading, easy flexibility on print sizes and improved photo quality.
Industry:Consumer electronics
To produce a quality image there is a maximum acceptance angle of a lens that must be adhered to.
Industry:Consumer electronics
Film ratings, expressed as a number indicating a film's sensitivity to light. The larger the number, the more sensitive and faster the film is. While traditional cameras don't have a specific ISO rating, digital cameras do as a way to express their sensitivity to light.
Industry:Consumer electronics
A lens surface that possesses more than one radius of curvature. The aspherical elements compensate for the multitude of lens aberrations common in simpler lens designs.
Industry:Consumer electronics
Allows the camera to automatically focus through the lens, rather than by moving the lens back and forth manually. See also TTL.
Industry:Consumer electronics
