Types

Instant Cameras: Instant cameras are camers containing self-developing film.

Disposable Cameras: Disposable cameras, sometimes refrered to as single use cameras, are box cameras with pre-installed film.

Point and Shoot Cameras: Point and shoot cameras, also referred to as compact cameras, are still-image cameras designed primarily for simple operation. These cameras lack automatic focusing capabilities.

SLR Cameras: Single Reflex Lens cameras are the largest cameras and offer more manual features, including an interchangeable lens.

TLR Cameras: Twin-lens Reflex Cameras are cameras containing two objective lenses of the same focal length. One lens takes the picture, while the other lens functions as the viewfinder.

Rangefinder Cameras: Rangefinder Cameras measure the distance from the photographer to a target. These cameras show a double image of the object and gauges the distance by allowing users to align the two images.

Diopter Correction

Diopter Correction: Diopter Correction is a focus adjustment that allows users to match the focus of the camera’s eyepiece to their eyesight.

Exposure Settings

Exposure Settings: Exposure settings regulate how much light is used to create an image and can be controlled by aperture adjustment and shutter speed adjustment.

Film Winding

Film Winding: Film winding, sometimes refered to as film advancing, moves a roll of film from one frame to the next after each shot is taken.

Types

Automatic: The camera automatically advances the film from one frame to the next after each picture is taken.

Manual: The camera requires the user to manually advance the film from one frame to the next after each picture is taken.

Automatic or Manual Film Winding: The camera allows the user to choose between manual or automatic film winding.

Flash

Flash: A flash is a device that produces an instantaneous burst of light to help illuminate a picture.

Flash Modes

Flash Modes

Auto: The auto flash mode automatically fires the flash whenever there is too little light for a good exposure.

Red Eye Reduction: The red eye reduction feature reduces the effect of red eye by emitting multiple bursts of light immediately before the picture is taken.

Fill: Fill flash is a technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days by forcing the flash to fire, even in bright light.

Manual: This feature allows the user to control the flash output.

Slow Sync: This flash mode illuminates the foreground of an image by opening the shutter for a longer period of time, and firing the flash just before it closes.

Flash Sync Mode

Flash Sync Mode: Flash Synchronization mode means that the shutter automatically fires the flash at the correct point.

Focus Type

The focus is an apparatus used to adjust focal length in order to make an image clearer or more distinct.

Types

Manual Focus: Manual focus is a feature that allows photographers the power to control the lens by hand, rather than by automatic focus.

Autofocus/Automatic: Autofocus is a feature that measures light arriving at a sensor, and uses that information to establish the correct focus.

Fixed-Focus/Focus-Free: Fixed-focus means that a camera has no method of focusing the lens, but instead the lens is focused on a fixed point.

ISO Rating

ISO Rating: The International Standardization Organization (ISO) Rating describes how sensitive to light a digital camera is. The higher the rating, the more sensitive the camera is to light, and the darker the environment in which the camera can take a photo.

Max Aperture Range

Max Aperture Range: Maximum Aperture Range is the largest amount of light allowed to enter the camera

Max Focal Length

Max Focal Length: Max Focal Length is the distance, measured in millimeters, from the lens to the focal plane.

Max Shutter Speed

Maximum shutter speed is the highest possible, or maximum shutter speed setting on your camera. Fast shutter speeds are essential for capturing movement and action shots, so the picture will not be blurry or over exposed.

Metering

Metering is a process that sets the appropriate aperture and shutter speed based on the brightness of a subject at which the lens is pointed.

Types

Centre-weighted: This metering system focuses on the center point at which the lens is pointed.

Average: This metering system takes hundreds of readings within a frame and averages the results to get the best combination of aperture and shutter speed.

Min. Aperture Range

Min Aperture Range: Minimum Aperture Range is the smallest amount of light allowed to enter the camera.

Min. Focal Length

Min. Focal Length: Minimum Focal Length is the shortest distance, measured in millimeters, from the lens to the focal plane.

Mirror Lock-Up

Mirror Lock-Up: The Mirror Lock-Up feature allows users to lock the camera’s mirror before the shutter is opened to reduce vibrations that may blur the picture.

Optical Zoom

Optical Zoom: Optical Zoom is a feature that allows users to alter the view angle of an image by altering the focal length of the lens.

Panoramic Mode

Panoramic Mode: The panoramic mode feature allows users to take an exceptionally wide-angled photograph.

Power Source

The Power Source produces energy on which a device runs.

Types

NiMH: Nickel metal hydride batteries are high-capacity, rechargeable batteries.

NiCd: Nickel cadmium batteries are medium-capacity, rechargeable batteries.

Lithium: Lithium batteries are non-rechargeable and have an average shelf life of up to ten years.

Alkaline: Alkaline batteries are non-rechargeable and have an average shelf life of up to five years.

Rechargeable Alkaline: Rechargeable alkaline batteries can be recharged up to 25 times.

Quartz Date

Quartz Date: The quartz date feature allows users to imprint the time and/or date onto the photo.

Self Timer

Self Timer: The self timer mechanism is a timed delay feature that allows users to prolong the time it takes to shoot the photo.

Shooting Modes

Shooting Modes: Shooting modes automatically adjust the camera for the best exposure setting when shooting a specific photograph.

Still Image Capture Speed

Still Image Capture Speed: Still Image Capture Speed, controlled by aperture, refers to the number of frames per second a camera can capture.

Tripod Mount

Tripod Mount: A tripod mount is a mounting plate that allows a camera to be connected to a tripod.

Waterproof

Waterproof: This feature allows users to take pictures outdoors and in wet and snowy conditions. In some cases, waterproof cameras may also be used underwater up to a certain depth.

Splash Proof: This feature allows users to take pictures in a variety of conditions, while protecting the camera from incidental moisture.

White Balance

White Balance: White balance is a color correction system that compensates for different light level conditions to retain an image's true colors.