Buying A Digicam? Features To Compare Among Various Digital Camera Models

August 20th, 2010 | General

It helps to learn about the most commonly used terms when describing a digital camera’s features. Most often these features determine the various capabilities and price of a digital camera. Before taking a buying decision, it helps to compare various digital camera models available using their feature list.

Automatic Mode — A Shooting Mode setting that sets the focus, scene and white-balance automatically. The digital camera takes the best decision depending on the shooting scene. This is good for starters. Once you gain experience with your digital camera, you will know which settings to use for different situations.

Burst Mode or Continuous Capture Mode — a succession of pictures taken at quickly timed intervals with a single press of the shutter button.

Compression — the ability of a digital camera to compact the digital data, images and text. Usually pictures taken result in a huge file size. The digital camera needs to compress the picture size to accommodate further shots and easy transfer of files.

Digital Zoom — Cropping and magnifying the parts of the image, particularly the center part.

JPEG — a universal file format supported by almost all digital imaging devices and software, such as computers, mobiles, offset printing machines etc. The digicam needs to support this format in order to share the images with others.

Lag time — the time difference between the time of pressing the shutter button press and the actual image capture time.

LCD — (Liquid-Crystal Display) is a small screen on a digital camera for to preview, view, edit, crop images.

Lens — Similar to the lens in a normal camera. Some digital cameras come with optical zoom lenses apart from digital zoom that defined above.

Megabyte — (MB) Measures 1024 Kilobytes of memory, refers to the digital storage space required to store an image. Based on your digital camera’s internal or extended memory you can roughly calculate how many pictures you can take with your available memory. For example, if each image is 1 MB, with a 16 MB internal memory, you can take up to 16 pictures. You can take further pictures, once you transferred or deleted earlier images.

Pixels — Tin
1000
y points of color that make up digital pictures. Pixels further define digital resolution. One million pixels are called one mega-pixel. The more mega pixels you have the more quality pictures you can take. Pictures captured with a high resolution cameras do not look pale or diluted when they are viewed in a big screen or printed in large. The more pixels resolution a digital camera has, the more clearly and quality pictures we can take.

RGB — Refers to Red, Green, Blue colors used on computers to derive all other colors

Storage catalog / Extended Memory Card — the removable storage device that is used to store and transfer images, comparable to film, but highly smaller. Normally a digital camera’s internal memory is quite limited. You have to transfer files to a computer frequently. If you have an external memory card, you can take many pictures before transferring to a computer. It’s also called a digital camera mind’s eye card.

Viewfinder — same as the normal camera, where you can look at the scene.

White Balance – White balancing adjusts the camera settings to compensate for the type of light conditions before a shot. (You may be operating a digital camera in various lighting conditions such as daylight, fluorescent, incandescent etc.) These lighting conditions result in different shades in a picture. White balancing neutrals these conditions and makes them look normal to the human eye.

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Pravin Jadhav is a Manager at Foostor, Online shopping portal in India. Website: www.foostor.com