UNIT 1
A camera that can record what it sees.
What is a camcorder?
A number system with a base of 2.
What is binary?
Short for picture element.
What are pixels?
The nerve center for all telecasts.
What is master control?
Use of portable cameras and other production equipment for the production of daily news stories.
What is ENG (Electronic News Gathering)?
A complete scan of picture lines by the electron beam.
What is a frame?
The imaging element in a television camera.
What is the CCD (Charge-Coupled Device)?
The degree to which the focal length can be changed from a wide shot to a close up and vice versa.
What is the zoom range?
This is the aspect ratio of HDTV?
What is 16x9?
The interrelationship of various elements and processes whereby the proper functioning of each element is dependent on the others.
What is a system?
The width-to-height proportions of the television screen.
What is aspect ratio?
This is the studio camera and the associated equipment needed to operate it.
What is the camera chain?
A lens position that provides a close up view of a scene.
What is the narrow angle lens position?
The attribute of color that describes the color's richness.
What is saturation?
The manipulation of lights and shadows.
What is lighting?
In this system the electron beam skips every other line during each scan, then returns to the top of the screen to scan the remaining lines.
What is interlaced scanning?
This compact internal optical system of prisms and filters separates white light into the three primary colors of light.
What is the beam splitter?
The distance from the optical center of the lens to the camera's imaging device.
What is focal length?
What is depth of field?
Television production outside the studio that is usually shot for postproduction.
What is EFP (Electronic Field Production)?
In this system, the electron beam reads each line on the screen in order from top to bottom.
What is progressive scanning?
The adjustment of the color circuits of the camera to see white light under a variety of lighting conditions.
What is white balance?
The iris opening of the lens.
What is the aperture?
The standard scale used to measure the amount of light entering the lens.
What is f-stop?