This is a setting that helps you control the accuracy of the colors of your photos. Without setting the white balance correctly, your digital photos can appear to be lightly saturated with an orange, blue or yellow tinge. That happens because you shoot digital pictures with various light sources

The viewfinder shows you the picture you have framed through the camera and lens. Some viewfinders include a grid pattern of lines or a series of dots that would be a grid if connected by lines. You can use the grid or dots to align with the horizontal and vertical lines in your framed image.

This is essentially the 'universal' method to connect a digital camera to a computer (as well as many other devices that interface with computers). Standard USB can transfer data at 480 megabits per second. As USB technology advances, faster transfer times will be possible. Digital camera...

This describes a photo that wasn't exposed with enough light, leaving it very dark and with few recognizable details.

This technology increases the data transfer rate of your camera's memory card even more. UDMA also increases the transfer speed of data from your camera to your computer. You need an UDMA-enabled memory card reader, however.

This is the next level of storage space after a gigabyte. A terabyte is approximately 1 trillion bytes, which is the equivalent of 1,000 GB (gigabytes). Some memory cards, such as SDXC, are now being produced with this larger capacity; so more digital photos and video can be shot and stored in a...

This is the time needed for your digital camera to come to full power once you've pressed the power button. Depending on your camera, you may have to wait only a fraction of a second or as much as four or five seconds.

For most digital photographers, this is a basic package of three lights and two soft boxes. Studio umbrellas are an option to soft boxes. Consider umbrellas with a removable reflector or black backing.