DIGITAL TERMINOLOGY

Digital Camera: A camera that takes still photographs/videos digitally, recording the image on a light sensitive sensor.

Digital picture frame: An electronic picture frame that displays digital photographs stored on a memory card. Some digital frames have internal memory.

Digital Zoom: You select a section of an image the camera enlarges that area making it the final image, this usually results in a loss of image quality.

Flash Memory: Memory that can be erased and reprogrammed and needs no power to maintain storage of data.

Image Sensor: Digital cameras have Image Sensors which convert optical images to electric signals.

Internal Memory: Memory built into the camera, you can store 10-30 images depending on the amount of available memory.

LCD: An acronym for Liquid Crystal Display.

Megapixel: One million pixels, the term is used to express the number of image sensor elements in a digital camera and the number of pixels in a digital image or digital display.

Memory: Storage space where images can be stored untill you are ready to view them.

Memory Card: Card that fits into a slot on your digital camera or frame and expands your storage space. A one gigabyte SD card can store One thousand images.

Memory Card Types: Compact Flash (CF), Memory Stick (MS), Secure Digital (SD) and xD.

Optical Zoom: the lens is used to zoom in on a section of the subject, that section becomes the final image. there is no loss of image quality.

Pixel: Based on two words "Pix" from Pictures and "El" from Element. A pixel is the smallest piece of information in an image, it takes many pixels to provide a accurate representation of the original images.