Digital camera

Digital camera

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

Industry: Consumer electronics

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Area CCD

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A square or rectangular CCD that can capture an entire image at once, which is essential for dynamic subjects and flash photography.

a.k.a. scanner-type CCD, these sensors are long and thin, and capture an image by recording a vast number of individual "exposures" while scanning across the picture frame. These are best suited for ...

Center-Weighted

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A method of determining the correct exposure for a photograph which gives more importance to the light meter reading at the center of the frame than to the peripheral areas. This method is often ...

CMOS

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A type of semiconductor that has been, until the EOS D30, widely unavailable for digital cameras. CMOS semiconductors use two circuits, negative and positive ...

CMY

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. The three colors used to make all other colors. Like CMYK, CMY is used in printing to create the colors seen in a print.

CMYK

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

a.k.a. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, BlacK. The color model in which all colors are described as combinations of these four colors. Most color printers, ink-jet, laser, dye-sublimation, thermal, and crayon ...

Compact Flash Card

Consumer electronics; Digital camera

A digital image storing mechanism that is increasing in popularity and thus functionality. Flash memory is a safe, highly reliable form of storage that doesn't need power to hold the images after ...