Photographic Abbreviations (please add to my list)

[peachhead]

Here are some abbreviations you may come across in these Forums and in magazines--please feel free to add any you come across for the benefit of new Beginner members:

P & S--Point and Shoot camera
SLR--Single Lens Reflex--camera with interchangeable lenses
DSLR--Digital Single Lens Reflex camera
DOF--Depth of Field
PP--Post processing of images using image editing programs
PSE--PhotoShop Elements program by Adobe
LR--Lightroom program by Adobe
OOB--Out of Bounds--Image post processing so the subject appears to step  out of the image
PM--Personal Message sent to you on LVPC website under "My Messages"--it will also come to you in your regular email that you have a PM.

[bellamia]

I added these to the list so they are in ABC order.  I think they are very useful.

Here are some abbreviations you may come across in these Forums and in magazines--please feel free to add any you come across for the benefit of new Beginner members:

AE - Auto Exposure

AEB - Automatic Exposure Bracketing, enabling the shooting of a series of shots with different exposures

AF – Autofocus

AV - Shooting mode which allows you to choose the aperture, the camera then setting the appropriate shutter speed

BIF- Birds In Flight

BMP - The Windows bitmap graphics format, used for images that will be used as system resources on PCs

CA- Chromatic Aberration

CF - Compact Flash, a type of removable memory card

CMOS - Complementary Metal-oxide Semiconductor, a type of image sensor used in digital cameras

CPL - Circular Polarizer Filter

DOF--Depth of Field

dpi - Dots Per Inch, the number of dots a printer can create per linear inch

DSLR--Digital Single Lens Reflex camera

EV compensation - Exposure Value compensation, the measure of exposure, which can change the amount of exposure chosen by the automatic exposure mechanism

EFL - Effective Focal Length

EVF-Electronic Viewfinder

EVIL- Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens (a true acronym)

EXIF- Exchangeable Image Format, a variation of the JPEG format

FC = focus confirmation

GIF - (Graphics Interchange Format), one of two file formats used for images on the web

IS - Image Stabilization

ISO (old term ASA) - a numeric measure of film speed
JPEG - (Joint Photographic Experts Group) the most common file format, designed expressly for storing digital image data.

LCD - Liquid Crystal Display, the display screen included with some digital cameras

LR - Lightroom program by Adobe

MF - Manual Focus

MP - Megapixels, one million pixels

OOB- Out of Bounds--Image post processing so the subject appears to step out of the image

OOF- Out of Focus

OVF- Optical View Finder

P & S- Point and Shoot camera

PICT - the standard format for MacIntosh system images, the equivalent of BMP for Windows.

PM- Personal Message sent to you on LVPC website under "My Messages"--it will also come to you in your regular email that you have a PM.

PP -Post processing of images using image editing programs

ppi - Pixels Per Inch

PSE- PhotoShop Elements program by Adobe

RGB - the standard color model for digital images, where all colors are created by combining red, green and blue light (ergo, R-G-B).
       
         sRGB - a variation of the RPG color model

SD - Secure Digital, a type of removable memory card

SLR- Single Lens Reflex--camera with interchangeable lenses

SOFA = soft out of focus area

TIFF - (Tagged Image File Format) an image file format

TV - Shooting mode which allows you to choose the shutter speed, the camera then setting the appropriate aperture

TWAIN - a protocol that allows a photo-editing or catalog program to communicate directly with a digital camera or scanner

UV - Ultra-Violet (type of filter)

WB - White Balance



Bellamia

[Nick D]

Rhonda,

I removed my post sinceyou are added them to your list. I agree with Jeff about deleting the older list. another thing you can do is just modify your post and add new ones to the list, so you don't have to copy, paste, edit and repost a new reply. Just a few tips that may help you along.

Nick

[peachhead]

Thanks everyone!!  This is great and very helpful!  I am ashamed to admit that there were several on the list that I didn't know!!!     But now I do!!

[bellamia]

Nick,

I thought about just adding your information to my first post, but decided to repost it so that everyone would know that I had included your information.  Next time, I will just add any new information to my old list.  There were a lot of terms that I didn't know so I think it will be useful to new photographers to have a current list.

Bellamia