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Glossary
NTSC
National Television Standards Committee. A video encoding standard
primarily used in North America and Japan.
PAL
Phase Alternation Line. A video encoding standard primarily used in
Europe and Australia.
pixel
Short for picture element. Each image is composed of a number of
pixels. Pixels are also counted in units of dots.
port
An interface channel through which data is transmitted between
devices.
resolution
An indication of how finely an image is resolved into pixels. See
pixel
.
thumbnails
Small representations of images.
TIFF
A file format for storing color and grayscale images in files with little
or no data compression. (TIFF files made with the PhotoPC 3000Z
receive no data compression.) Saving data in the TIFF format results
in files that are larger and have finer image quality than image files
with greater data compression, such as JPEG and other format files.
See
JPEG
.
white balance
The balance between the whiteness and color in your image. When the
white balance is fixed to the environment where the picture is taken,
the colors in your images appear more like those seen by the eye.
zoom
To show a smaller area of an image at a higher magnification (zoom
in) or a larger area at a lower magnification (zoom out).
