Terms starting with H
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Hot Shoe
Cameras, Formats & Systems
The standardised bracket on top of a camera that both holds an accessory and provides electrical contacts to trigger it.
HSL
Colour & Colour Management
A colour model describing colour by hue, saturation and lightness, widely used for targeted colour editing.
Hue
Colour & Colour Management
degrees (0-360)
The attribute of a colour that gives it its name — red, green, blue — represented as a position on a circular scale.
Humanist Photography
Genres, Movements & Theory
A postwar movement, strongest in France, that photographed ordinary life with warmth and an emphasis on shared human experience.
Hybrid Autofocus
Focus & Depth of Field
A system combining phase detection for speed and direction with contrast detection for final precision.
Hybrid Viewfinder
Cameras, Formats & Systems
A finder that can switch between an optical view and an electronic one, or overlay electronic information on the optical image.
Hyperfocal Distance
Focus & Depth of Field
m
The focus distance that yields the greatest depth of field, extending from half that distance out to infinity.
H = f² / (N × c) + f
Hyperlapse
Motion, Video & Creative Techniques
m per frame
A time-lapse in which the camera moves substantially between frames, producing accelerated motion through space.