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Know about the Digital Camera Functions

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Know about the Digital Camera Functions

Creating moving or still pictures by the methods of capturing the live data is Photography as a process of by storing it on a sensitive medium such as electronic sensors or electromagnetic film and observing the radiations.

A chemical or electrical sensor in the storing material is activated by the light patterns emitted are obtained in a photographic film. A camera lens usually does this being highly sensitive.

Functions of a camera

Camera with flash trigger is a device to form an image. A photographic film or the electronic image sensors are the recording medium. Nowadays you will find digital cameras that have which electronic medium as the storing medium.

The main principle of the camera is that, it controls the amount of light and time of the exposure of the camera to the outer world with the use of a lens. On a film, we can form an image when there is enough light. This raw image is developed to get a real time image originally.

Movie camera is another type of camera in which not only the still but the total movements are also captured. The main idea behind the movie camera is that the data are captured in a sequence of photographs without any delay in between them. This creates a moving frame which is often captured with the voice.

Controls of a camera

We have to make sure that we adjust the camera either manually or automatically to ensure that we obtain a sharp and clear photograph. Below are some of its descriptions and the controls.

White balance

In the digital cameras with remote shutter the white balance is a special feature that is used to ensure that the white light is captured as it was in the real medium so that the colors appear naturally in the imaging area.

Aperture

You can refer aperture as the adjustments of the iris. It is also denoted as the f number. The amount of light that will pass through the lens is controlled by this number. On the focus and the depth of the field the aperture has also known to have some effect.

Shutter speed

Shutter speed can be defined as the controls over the speed of the shutter with which it closes and opens. This is usually in the speeds of milliseconds. This is the time in which the imaging medium and the light are exposed to the storing medium.

Focus

Focus is an adjustment that is created to bring the desired area or the desired part to the sharpest point possible. Actually it is done manually, but in some latest digital cameras with remote camera control this is also done automatically.

 

Auto-focus point

To ensure that the focus is done so that it satisfies the photographer's wish auto-focus point is an additional feature that is employed in many of the new digital cameras. Nowadays in the view finder, multiple auto focus points are also present.

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