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Important DSLR and general photography term explanations.

Category: Engineering

Company: Canon, Inc.

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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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When the light source enters the lens directly, internal reflections by the lens surfaces can cause round, whitish spots on the image. This can be prevented by using a lens hood or hand to block out ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

It stands for graduated neutral density filter. It's a graduated filter that allows you to bring an overly right section of a scene into the correct range of the darker section of the scene so that ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

An indicator of a flash unit's output power. At ISO 100, you can calculate the maximum flash range by dividing the Guide No. by the f-number. For example, if the Guide No. is 10 and f/2 is set, the ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This occurs when the image is overexposed and there are highlight areas with no detail.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

This is attached to the front of the lens to block out stray light entering the lens from outside the angle of view.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

A graph that shows how many pixels there are for each level of brightness. The horizontal axis represents the brightness, and the left end is the pixels for the totally black areas. The right end is ...

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

Software which enables you to view and organize digital images. You can view thumbnails or enlarged images, change the order of images, select images to be saved, etc.

Domain: Photography; Category: Photography techniques Collected Term

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