Camera Body & Gear
The main reason a mirrorless camera is lighter and quieter than an SLR
What is the lack of a mirror and pentaprism?
The collective term for the three controls that determine the total light captured.
What is Exposure?
Aperture controls the amount of light and this other visual property of the image.
What is depth of field?
The camera setting the photographer selects when in Av (Aperture Value) mode.
What is the aperture?
For outdoor single exposures, the area of the scene you should expose for to avoid losing unrecoverable information.
What are the highlights?
This company makes the L-series lenses, like the 17-40 1:4 L
What is Canon?
The visual defect that is the trade-off for setting the ISO to a higher number.
What is noise or grain?
The term for when only a small slice of the scene is in focus to isolate a subject.
What is shallow depth of field?
The camera mode where the photographer sets both the aperture and shutter speed.
What is Manual (M) mode?
The technique used to achieve the necessary dynamic range for most indoor photography.
What is HDR (High Dynamic Range) bracketing?
The resolution, in megapixels, of the full-frame sensor used in the cameras.
What is 24.2 megapixels?
The recommended default ISO setting that photographers should be using most of the time.
What is 400?
The visual effect, besides a shorter depth of field, created by a longer focal length.
What is scene compression?
The camera setting the photographer selects when in Tv (Time Value) mode.
What is the shutter speed?
The type of day that is actually preferred for indoor photography, as it diffuses window light.
What is an overcast or cloudy day?
The physical action required to properly use a circular polarizing filter.
What is rotating the filter until the reflection disappears?
This is what the acronym ISO stands for.
What is International Organization for Standardization?
The main risk of a shutter speed below $1/60th$ of a second when the camera is hand-held.
What is blur or camera shake?
The control on the back of the camera used to adjust the camera's determined exposure in Av or Tv mode.
What is the thumbwheel or exposure compensation?
The required company policy when a client asks for a large item, like a TV, to be removed.
What is to offer digital removal for a fee?
The third component of the Exposure Triangle along with Aperture and Shutter Speed.
What is ISO?
The creative effect achieved by using an extremely fast shutter speed like $1/4000$th of a second.
What is freezing the motion or stopping fast action?
What the 'EF' on a Canon lens, specifying the type of lens mount, stands for.
What is Electro-Focus or Electronic Focus?
What the acronym HDR stands for, a technique used often in the presented photography style.
What is High Dynamic Range?
The preferred file format because it is uncompressed and contains the most sensor information.
What is Raw?