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This button on your camera captures the image when you fully press it down.
Difficulty: Easy- Focus button
- Shutter button
- Mode dial
- Power switch
This camera orientation has the camera rotated 90 degrees with the long edge vertical, ideal for full-body shots.
Difficulty: Medium- Landscape orientation
- Panoramic format
- Dutch angle
- Portrait orientation
This flash characteristic, measured in fractions of a second like 1/1000s or 1/20,000s, determines ability to freeze high-speed motion.
Difficulty: Hard- Flash duration
- Recycle time
- Flash sync
- Power rating
This is the term for how sensitive your camera's sensor is to light, with common values like 100, 400, or 1600.
Difficulty: Easy- Aperture
- Shutter speed
- White balance
- ISO
This filter rotates to reduce reflections on glass and water, and can also deepen blue skies.
Difficulty: Medium- Circular polarizer
- UV filter
- Neutral density filter
- Graduated ND filter
This lens aberration causes off-axis points to appear as elongated crosses or lines due to different focal planes for tangential and sagittal rays.
Difficulty: Hard- Coma
- Astigmatism
- Distortion
- Petzval field curvature
This file format compresses images and is most commonly used for sharing photos online and on social media.
Difficulty: Easy- JPEG
- RAW
- TIFF
- PSD
This multiplication factor, typically 1.5x or 1.6x, describes how smaller sensors affect the effective focal length of lenses.
Difficulty: Medium- Magnification ratio
- Zoom factor
- Crop factor
- Focal multiplier
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