Nikonians Photo Glossary

3D 3D Multi-Sensor Balanced Fill-Flash

Aberration Absorption Accessory shoe Achromatic Action Finder (Action Viewfinder) Acutance Advanced Wireless Lighting AE (Auto Exposure) AE Lock AF (Autofocus) AF (Autofocus) Assist Illuminator AF-D lens AF-I lens AF Lock AF Sensor AF-S lens AI lens AI'd lens AI-P lens AI-S lens Ambient Light Angle of View Angle of Flash coverage Aperture Aperture Priority Apochromatic Arca Swiss Compatibility Chart Archival ASA Aspherical (ASP) Astigmatism Auto Camera Auto Flash Auto Lens Available Light

B (Bulb) Backdrop Background Backlighting Bellows Bitmap Bounce Light Boke Bokeh Blur Bracket Bracketing Brightness Buffer Bulb Burning BS

CA - Chromatic Aberration Cable Release Cartridge Catchlight CCD (Charged Coupled Device) CC (Color Compensating) Filter CD-R CD-RW C-W (Center-Weighted) Fill-Flash C-W (Center-Weighted) Metering Chromatic Aberration Cibachrome Circle of Confusion Circular Polarizer Close-up Close-up Attachment Lens CLS CRC (Close Range Correction System) CMYK Color Color Temperature Color (Temperature) Conversion Filter Coma Compact Camera CompactFlash™ Card Continuous Servo AF Contrast Control Filter Contrast Convertible Lens Copyright Crop Curvature of Field Curves

Data Daylight Daylight-Type film D chip DC (Defocus Control) Definition D-Type Lenses Darkcloth Darkroom Darkslide Dedicated Flash Density Depth of Field (DOF) Depth of Field Preview Button Developer Diaphragm Diffraction Diffuser Digital Digital Camera Digitization DIN Diopter Disc Disk Dispersion Distance Information Distortion Dodging Download DPI DX Coding DX lenses Dynamic AF Dynamic range

ED (Extra Low Dispersion) Glass ED lens Emulsion Enlargement EV EXIF Exposure Exposure Compensation Exposure Factor Extension Rings External Flash Eyepiece Correction Lens Eyepiece magnifier Eyepiece shutter

Fast Film Fast Lens File Format Film Film/Frame Advance Mode Fill-Flash Filter Filter Adapter Ring FireWire® Fisheye Lens Fixed Focal Length Flare Flash Flash Bracketing Flash Card Flash Color Information Communication Flash Compensation Flash Duration Flash Range Flash Sync (Synchronization) Flash Value Lock Flexible Program Flood Lamp F Numbers Focal Length Focal Plane Focal Plane Shutter Focal Point Focus Focus Mode Focus Priority Focusing Screen Focusing Stage Focus Tracking Foreground Format f-Number FP High Speed Sync Fringing Front Curtain Sync

G-type lenses Gamma Gamut GIF Golden Section Gradation Grade Graduated Filter Grain Gray Scale Ground Glass Guide Number

Haze High Eye point High Key Highlights Histogram Hot Shoe Hue Hyperfocal Distance

IF (Internal Focusing) System Image Image Editor Image Plane IQ - Image Quality Image Resolution Incident Light Infinity Infrared Infrared Compensation Index Inkjet Inverse Square Law IR Setting ISO

Jaggies JCII JPEG Juxtapose

K (Kelvin) Key Light Keystoning

Latent Image Latitude LCD Leaf Shutter LED Lens Lens Coatings Lens Drive Systems Lens Hood/Shade Lens Speed (Visible) Light Light Box Light Meter Loupe Low Key Luminance LPI

M/A Macro photography Manual Camera Manual Mode MAGICA - Camera Support System Magnification Matte Field Matrix Metering Media Megabyte Megapixel Meter Microprism Micro Nikkor Lens Mirror Lens Mirror Lockup Mode Monochromatic Monopod Motor Drive MTF

NAS ND NEF Negative Negative space Neutral Density Filter Newton Rings Ni-Cd Ni-MH Normal Lens

Orthochromatic OTF Over-Exposure

Panchromatic Panning Panoramic Parallax PC Nikkor Lens Pentaprism Perspective Photoflood Photography PICT Pinhole Camera Pixel Plane Polarization Polarizing Filter Portrait Lens Positive Posterization PPI Preset Focus Primary Colors Prime Lens Principal Point Prism Processing Projector Pulling Pushing

QVGA Quasi-fisheye

RAM Rangefinder Raster Raw Rear Focus Rear Focusing System Rear Sync Reciprocity Failure Recycling Time Red Eye Reflected Light Reading Reflector Reflex Camera RGB Relative Aperture Release-Priority AF Repeating Flash Reproduction Ratio Resolution Retouching Reversal Materials Ring Flash Rising Front Roll-Film Roll-Film Adapter Rule of thirds

Safelight Saturation SCSI Selective Focus Selenium Cell Self Timer Separations Sharpness Sheet Film Sheimpflug Principle Shutter Shutter Priority Single-Servo AF Silver Halide Silver Nitrate Single Lens Reflex (SLR) Camera Skylight Filter Slave Slide Slow Sync Snapshot Soft-Focus Soft Lighting Solarization Spectrum Speed Spherical Aberration Split Image Rangefinder Spot Meter Spotting Standard Lens Stereoscopy Stopping Down Swing

Teleconverter Telephoto Lens Thumbnail TIFF Tone Transparency TTL Tungsten Tungsten Type Film Type A Film Type B Film

Under-Exposure USB UXGA UV Filter

Variable Focus Lens View Camera Viewfinder Vignetting VR lenses

Waist-Level Viewfinder White Balance Wide-Angle Lens Working Distance WYSIWYG

Zeiss Zone System Zoom Flash Zoom Lens