This function, included in some cameras, recognizes a camera that is shooting in the portrait, or vertical, mode. That orientation data is stored with the picture, so it also appears vertically on a monitor or other display.

When you shoot a picture with too slow of a shutter speed or too wide of an aperture, your camera will capture so much light that there are no details in your picture and color is poorly reproduced.

Because you look through a separate viewer to compose your picture on a compact digital camera, you and the lens don't see the subject exactly the same. The closer you are to your subject (five feet or less), the less your photo will look like what you see. In fact, you could be so close that you...

This digital camera technology determines the exact focus much the same as you would manually. It typically focuses on and around the area at the center of the image. The camera then directs the lens to turn slightly in both directions to find the best focus point.

Sony developed this first of the motion JPEG movie files. In this mode, the length of a video sequence is only limited by the available storage capacity.

This is another standard-setting group of companies that developed the technology for PC-card slots on modern laptop computers. There are PCMCIA adapters for Compact Flash (CF), SmartMedia (SM), Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC) and Memory Stick (MS) flash cards.

Another standard similar to NTSC, except this 50-field video format is used mostly in Europe and international locations other than the U.S. Japan.

This is a computer program that allows you to adjust and manipulate your pictures. Photoshop' has long been the first choice of pros and graphic designers, but much easier and affordable software, such as GIMP, is now available for the beginner or photo hobbyist. GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation...