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Remote Trigger

Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:14

If you need to fire your camera from a distance you’ll need a remote trigger. Unlike a cable release, remote triggers give you the opportunity to move much further away as they use infrared beams or radio frequencies to communicate with your camera. The ranges of remote triggers differ from trigger to trigger but there are versions that can fire ...

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Remote Trigger

Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:14

Mode Dial

Anonymous, 21 November 2008 12:53

This is a rotational dial that can be swivelled around to change a camera’s mode setting. Found on both compacts and D-SLRs and placed on a camera’s top-plate. On compacts you’re likely to find the mode dial on the far right of the to-pplate, meaning you can change the mode quickly and easily with your thumb. On a D-SLR they’re ...

D-Pad

Anonymous, 21 November 2008 12:49

Also known as a directional pad or digital pad, the D-pad is used to describe one of the main buttons on a compact or D-SLR camera. It’s found on the back and lets you move through the camera’s menu system, change AF points and flick through your images in play mode. Although D-pads differ from camera to camera, most of ...

Top-plate

Anonymous, 21 November 2008 12:45

If you hold your camera in both hands and look vertically down on top of it you’ll be looking at the top-plate. On a standard D-SLR you’ll find a LCD screen, pop up flash and mode dial on the top-plate. Layout varies from camera to camera and manufacturers often place commonly used buttons like White Balance, ISO and AF, on ...

Image Quality

Anonymous, 21 November 2008 12:41

A general term regularly used in both Digital Photo and Practical Photography magazines to describe the quality of an image taken by any type of camera. You can test the image quality of a camera in a number of ways; the most common is by assessing the metering and ISO performance and by viewing a photograph at 100%, or by ...

Point and shoot

Anonymous, 29 October 2008 15:48

The term point and shoot refers to a camera that has limited user controls and is mostly automatic. Point and shoot is a name given to compact cameras because they don’t have manual controls that you would find on a SLR. However many SLRs still have a point and shoot or fully automatic mode.