Stumped on home page

OK, so I know I'm a bit dim when it comes to camera's, but I really haven't got a clue what I have. Can someone please tell me what a DSLR is, or a point and shoot?

Then I'll promise to crawl back under my stone, and stay quiet

dslr------you can change the lens.


point and shoot-----you cant change the lens

what camera do you have?

Ah, thank you I thought the slr was the digital and the other was one with film so I was getting a bit confused

My camera is a kodak easyshare c743 digital with a zoom button, and we also have one that takes a film and I think I can change the lenses, but not sure as my dad gave it to me without instructions

tis me again I don't think I'm ever going to come out of the corner!

Anyway, my question this time is, what is meant by RAW? oh and whilst I'm here, are there any other camera/photography abreviations that are commonly mentioned, or a post somewhere giving a breakdown?

RAW is an uncompressed image, as the camera takes it.

Some other abbreviations:

AE - Auto Exposure
AF - Auto Focus
AP - Aperture Priority
AS - Antishake - often understood to be the same as Image Stabilization, but may only refer to a camera automatically increasing ISO
CAF - Continuous Auto Focus
DOF - Depth of Field
DZ - Digital Zoom
EC - Exposure Compensation
EV - Exposure Value
FOV - Field of View
IQ - Image Quality
IS - Image Stabilization - usually refers to optical IS
ISO – Number indicating a digital camera sensors sensitivity to light
MF - Manual Focus
NI - Neat Image - noise reduction software
NN - Noise Ninja – noise reduction software
NR - Noise Reduction
NT or (NT) - comments written only in a subject line of a post, indicating no reply in the main subject area
OIS - Optical Image Stabilization
OOF - Out of Focus
OP - Original Poster – person who starts a new forum topic
OZ – Optical Zoom
PIC - Picture
PICS, PIX - pictures
PP - Post Processing - editing digital images
PS - Photoshop - photo editing program considered by many to be the "gold standard"
PSE - Photoshop Elements - "little brother" of Photoshop
PSP - Paintshop Pro - similar to Photoshop but less expensive
SP - Shutter Priority
TCon - Telephoto converters for increasing focal length.
USM - Unsharp Mask - sharpening tool found in many photo editing programs
WB - White Balance
WCon - Wide Angle Converters
100% crop - a section of a full sized image cropped at an 1:1 ratio

Your camera is a point and shoot.

Hi and welcome to the group

RAW this is the link to read about it


http://photo.net/learn/raw/

Bazza

DSLR - Digital single lens reflex.

Point and shoot, means you point the camera and shoot, IT does all the work for you.

point and shoot does all the work? .... hmmmmmm.... makes me wonder why i ever got rid of it. lol...


and hi Cumbrian Lass.. what part of cumbria are you from? its one of my favorite places

Manquish.... I always assumed OP was original point. you learn something new everyday

Good stuff there Manguish - maybe Azz should sticky that!