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Question	Answer
Takes still pictures which are stores in a media card	Digital still camera
Takes moving pictures and stores them in either a digital video cassette or a digital video disc	Digital video camera
Lets you control the settings manually	Manual controls
You can connect your DVC to a TV or monitor through an ??? cable attached	HDMI out socket/pocket
Through connecting to this, You will be able to monitor the sound of your video	Headphone jack
For some specialised uses such as when u want to get a clear audio in a busy environment	Microphone jack
DVCs have this port. Another way for a user to transfer audio and video data between their video recording device and computer	USB port
Allows you to sea what your camera us recording. Info's such as battery life, time code, time left, etc. can also be seen here	Viewfinder
Allows you to make minor adjustments on focus and exposure which can be seen in the viewfinder. Smartphones relay on this.	LCD
The whole screen acts as the digital "viewfinder" of the portable device, where the image or video can be previewed.	LCD
Collects light and focuses the image onto your camera's sensor chip. It may come with manual focusing ring that lets u adjust the focus	Lens
Lets u quickly adjust your lens angle from a wide-angle to a telephone lens, depending on the kind of shot you need to make	Zoom Rocker
Where you insert your flash memory card.	Memory card slot
Digital video cameras comes with an _ _	On-board microphone
Has these functions: start/stop	Record button
Each camera brand and model has this its own _ pack	Battery
Found at the bottom of the camera.	Tripod mounting nut
Smallest format of the DV cassette	MiniDV
videos can be stored here by "burning" them	Optical dics
It's video resolution is 720 x 480 pixels. Can record 60 mins of video at SP	Digital video cassette
Has storage capacity that ranges from 2GB to 512GB. Does not need any external power supply to store data.	Flash memory card
Comes with atleast 2.0 megapixels (2million pixels)	Digital still camera
Digital still cameras can shoot and store videos with lower resolution of __	320 x 240 pixels
Minimum resolution of videos intended to be sold	1920 x 1080 pixels
covers a large area; useful for long shots or for showing sceneries	Wide-Angle lens
It's focal length is shorter than that of a normal lens	Wide-angle lens
The distance from a lens to its focus	Focal length
For shooting objects far from the camera & showing details when doing close-up shots	Telephone / narrow lens
Shoots long, medium, close up shots all in one shot without cutting	Zoom lens
Done by moving the camera left and right	Tracking/Crabbing shot
Done by moving the camera forward and backward	Dolly shot
Requires a special equipment called a "crane"; camera is moved vertically	Crane shot
Camera movement depends on the stability of the camera operator	Handheld shot
Transfers digital information to and from your devices	USB cables
Also known as IEEE 1394	FireWire cable
Commonly used for MiniDV video cameras	FireWire cable
SECAM ; analog color system invented in France	Sequential Color with Memory
Software programs that can be freely downloaded from the Internet but may be copyrighted	Freeware
Small electronic data storage	Media card
Free programs whose source codes are modifiable and can be distributed	Open source software
The number of pixels (dots of info) on a given frame	Resolution
Recording format uses DV compression to store data digitally on an 8mm tape	Digital8
Distance from a lens to the focal point of the image projected by the lens	Focal length
A type of display wherein a liquid crystal solution is placed between two sheets of polarising material	Liquid Crystal Display
GNU image manipulation program	GIMP
A freely distributed software for photo retouching, iamge composition and image authoring	GIMP
Can read and write a large variety of graphic file formats	GIMP
XCF	experimental computing facility
Variety of tools; select, draw and transform objects for more info on the tools, click help in the main menu	Main toolbox
Sections displays the properties of the tool chosen	Tool option
Shows the layer structure of the currently active image	Layers options
Offer options for choosing brushes, patterns, and gradients	Brushes, patterns, gradients option
The area where you as a user will be primarily working at	Image windows