Category: Engineering
Company: Canon, Inc.
Created by: Karl Schaeffer
Number of Blossarys: 9
A wide angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image.
The light entering directly into the camera lens is reflected internally causing a whitish color cast over the image. This can be alleviated to some degree with a lens hood or hand blocking out the ...
Artificial illumination lasting for only an instant. It is close to daylight type of light. Since the flash is a very bright light fired for a very short moment, it can freeze a moving subject like ...
Expressed in millimeters (mm), this refers to how much of the scene can be captured by the lens. It is the distance between the lens' theoretical center to the imaging sensor. If the focal length is ...
This is where the photo looks the sharpest. Technically, focus is achieved at only one point (plane) and other objects may appear to be in focus within the depth of field.
Formatting the memory card enables the card to be used to store data. When the card is formatted, any previous data contained will be lost. This can also be called initialization.
The frequency (rate) at which a camera captures unique consecutive images.