The art and science of photographing a motion picture. The cinematographer is responsible for capturing the actual film footage using a motion picture camera which can be film or digital based. Read a [..]

The trade name given to Point & Shoot digital cameras manufactured by Nikon. Read articles that include this term

A measure of lens power equal to the reciprocal of the focal length. Eyeglass prescriptions are generally indicated in diopters. For cameras, the diopter is used as the measure of the dioptric power f [..]

The actual numbers of pixels the camera's sensor uses to make the image. The number of effective pixels is often slightly smaller than the total number of pixels, as some pixels are not used in t [..]

An exabyte is a unit of information equal to 1,024 petabytes or approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

Slang term for the stair-like appearance of an angled or curved line in digital imaging. Read articles that include this term

The mirror that reflects the light passing through the lens upward to the prism for viewing. Read articles that include this term

The speed at which a flash synchronizes with the opening of the shutter. Normal X-sync flash operation requires the entire shutter to be open when the flash is fired. Shutter speeds at which this is p [..]

Analog to Digital conversion is usually the first stage in the process of converting an analog signal coming from the image sensor via multiple channels into digital data for the image processing and [..]

The trade name given to the NIKKOR lenses that have been designed for optimal use with the CX-format Nikon 1 digital camera system. Read articles that include this term