Aperture is the opening of a camera’s shutter that opens and closes, allowing light to reach its film or sensor. The wider the aperture setting, the more light is let in. The smaller the aperture, the [..]

APS-C refers to a camera’s sensor size. APS-C is also known as ‘crop sensor’ due to it being about a half crop of a full-frame, 35mm sensor. If you put a lens built for full-frame sensors onto a crop- [..]

The ability of a camera to focus on a subject electronically, rather than the photographer having to focus the lens manually.  

Blooming happens when a camera’s sensor is exposed to too much light. The visual effect results in colored or bright halos around the highlights or bright areas of an image.  

bracketing is a camera function in which one image is taken in multiple exposures, generally with the option of full stop, half stop and one-third stop increments.  

Color temperature is a color scale that measures whether a color is cold (blue tones) or warm (more yellow tones). Colors are given corresponding numbers in this system that are called degrees kelvin. [..]

Depth of field is the area of an image which is in focus, or ‘sharp’. Generally there is an area before and behind a photo’s subject that is out of focus. Depth of field can be controlled with apertur [..]

Dynamic range is simply the difference between the light and dark parts of an image. If a scene exceeds the capabilities of a camera’s dynamic range, dark parts of an image will show up as pure black [..]

An electronic viewfinder shows the scene captured by a camera’s lens on a miniature electronic screen. Up until recently, EVFs were considered inferior to optical viewfinders, as they were once slow t [..]

The “correct” exposure that a camera’s light meter gives you is not always the exposure that the photographer would like to take. Exposure compensation is a camera function that allows the photographe [..]