Acronyms
Have you ever been part of a discussion about photography or read an article regarding your dslr hobby an come across an acronym you didn't understand? Below are some of the more common acronyms listed in alphabetical order you may come across.
A:
A-DEP: Automatic depth of field – A mode on Canon cameras which lets the camera automatically put everything covered by focus points in focus.
AdobeRGB: A popular color space with a wider color gamut than sRGB, originally designed to encompass most of the colors achievable with CMYK printers, yet displayable on RGB monitors.
AE: Automatic exposure.
AEB: Automatic exposure bracketing. Most commonly used in HDR photography.
AEL: Auto-exposure lock – allows a user to lock exposure settings and reorient the camera without changing exposure settings.
AF: Auto focus.
A-TTL: Canon's older Advanced through-the-lens flash metering technology which uses a brief preflash to determine subject reflectivity and thereby estimate subject distance.
APO: Apochromatic – Technology which minimizes color aberration.
APS-C: Canon's 1.6x crop sensor.
APS-H: Canon's 1.3x crop sensor.
AWB: Automatic white balance
B:
B: Bulb mode – allows for the shutter to be open as long as the shutter button is pressed.
C:
CA: Chromatic abberation - Color fringing seen at high contrast areas
