HP SB360 HP SB360 Digital Camera - User's Manual - Page 8

Using this Menu Symbols used in this manual are explained below: Note This indicates useful information when using your camera. Warning This indicates warning message that should be read before using the function. Photography Terms and Definitions Terms auto exposure bracketing (AEB) autofocus (AF) album Analog to Digital Converter (A/D or ADC) aspect ratio auto white balance (AWB) Charge Coupled Device (CCD) compression connection Digital Print Order Format (DPOF) Definitions A simple technique professional photographers use to ensure they properly expose their pictures, especially in challenging lighting situations. When AEB is selected, the camera automatically takes three or more shots with a different exposure for each frame. Autofocus refers to a camera lens' ability to adjust its configuration in order to focus properly on a subject regardless of whether it is near or far from the camera. Autofocus lenses generally provide vastly superior image quality than do their fixed focus cousins since they do not have to rely on their depth of field. Also known as: "AF", "auto-focus" An end-user created object that is used to logically group data objects according to some user-defined criteria. An album may or may not be a physical folder in a filesystem. A circuit that converts an analog signal, having a continuously varying amplitude, to a digitally quantized representation using binary output signals. cf. image aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio. With auto white balance, the camera attempts to determine the color temperature of the light and automatically adjust for that color temperature. Many people just leave the camera set to auto white balance all the time. A type of silicon integrated circuit used to convert light into an electronic signal. cf. image compression, sound file compression A transport-provided logical or physical persistent mechanism for transferring data between devices. A standardized ASCII file created in a digital camera and stored on removable media along with the image files that indicate how many copies of which images should be printed. It also allows index prints, cropping, and text overlays to be specified. vii