It is going to be a work-in progress thing, so please help me in keeping it clean, clear and good in quality.
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A
- analogue
- opposed to digital, referred to a quantity, states that it is measured with ideally infinite precision, with no discontinuity between two consecutive values.
B
- bokeh
- is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image. Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting. [Source: Wikipedia]
D
- depth of field
- depth of field is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appears acceptably sharp in an image.
- digital
- opposed to analogue, referred to a quantity, states that it is measured in discreet values and its value cannot therefore vary continuously between two consecutive steps.
- Dynamic Resolution
- or dynamic range is the number of different values that a measurement instrument can attribute to a quantity. In the digital world, it is usually defined as the maximum minus the minimum value an instrument can read-out.
M
- Magnitude
- is the logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object, in astronomy [source: Wikipedia].
S
- Solid-State detectors
- materials made of special compounds able to capture light or particles and convert them to an electric signal that can be later processed and measured by a suitable electronics.
