| Digital photography is very popular these days. If | | | | better the quality. |
| you have recently shifted from film cameras to | | | | MEGABYTE represents computer memory. One |
| digital photography, it is essential that you | | | | megabyte equals one million bytes of file storage |
| understand the various terms and abbreviations | | | | capacity. |
| associated with it: | | | | JPEG stands for joint photographic experts group. |
| A PIXEL It is the smallest part of a digital image. | | | | It represents a format for storing images in digital |
| Pixels are combined with millions of other pixels to | | | | cameras. JPEG files can be displayed easily on the |
| form a photo image. The resolution of digital | | | | Internet and e-mailed. |
| cameras is expressed in terms of pixels. | | | | The digital files of all digital cameras need to be |
| The total quantity of pixels in a photo image is | | | | stored on a MEMORY CARD. The sizes of these |
| the RESOLUTION. The quality of the picture | | | | cards depend upon the amount of storage |
| becomes sharper and better with the increase in | | | | capacity required. For convenience, buy as big of |
| resolution; more pixels mean better the quality. | | | | a card as you can afford. This is one |
| One million pixels make a MEGAPIXEL. A picture | | | | computer-related storage space you'll use all of, |
| with three or four megapixels will have much | | | | routinely. |
| better quality than a picture with just one. | | | | LCD is an acronym for liquid crystal display. Most |
| DPI (dots per inch) is used to describe the quality | | | | digital cameras have this feature so that the |
| of a printer or computer monitor. Laser printers | | | | photographer can check the scene before clicking, |
| have about 300 dpi resolution, while monitors only | | | | then review the picture after taking the photo. |
| have 72. Photo quality inkjet printers have a dpi | | | | Happy clicking! |
| of at least 1200 dpi. Here again, more the dpi, | | | | |