Basic Terminologies

Many people find digital cameras difficult to understand mainly because of the technical terminologies involved. There are a lot of terms associated with digicams, however it is good enough to know just the basic terms before getting your hand on digital cameras. The basic terminologies of digital cameras are pixels, white balance, pixel count, and aspect ratio.

Pixels:

Pixel is the abbreviated form of the term Picture Element. Even though digital images look continuous like a motion picture, it is actually composed of numerous tiny squares referred to as Pixels. Each pixel is made up of 3 channels, red, blue and green, and each of the channels have a value between 0 and 255.

Pixel Count:

The Pixel count is the measurement based on which the manufacturers categorize digital cameras. Pixel count is the number of individual pixels constituting the composition of the entire image. A million pixel is shortened as 1MP (Mega Pixel), so a 3MP camera will generate picture with 2 Million Pixels. Currently Cameras are available in the range of 1MP to 14MP. The pixel count is choose photos to be used for photo books. The photos can be processed into a picture book with the software that is available on http://www.fotobuch-deutschland.org. The software can be downloaded free of charge.

Aspect Ratio

The Aspect Ration refers to the ration of the length of the sides of the image generated by the camera. Some digital cameras use the same aspect ratio of their film counterparts, but consumer grade digicams use a 4:3 aspect ratio since most video monitors use a 4:3 ratio.

White Balance

White balance is a setting that is used to remove unrealistic color manifestation in the image so that a white object appears white in the final image and not yellow or blue. Some digital cameras automatically decide the white balance to be used for a particular lighting and there are others with group of settings specific for different lighting. IN the most advanced cases, manual settings is enabled where you focus the camera on a white card and let the camera manipulate the settings to make the card appear white.

Memory

The digital camera memory is one of the most important facets of a digital camera, as the photographs taken are stored in this part of the camera. There are many types of memory employed in digicams, understanding them is essential to have control over the digicam.