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File Size
The storage a file occupies, determined by pixel count, bit depth, channel count and compression.
Lighting & FlashFill Light
A secondary, weaker light or reflector used to raise the shadows the key light casts, controlling contrast.
Composition & Visual DesignFilling the Frame
Composing so the subject occupies most or all of the picture area, leaving little surrounding context.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesFilm
A flexible transparent base coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, which records an image chemically rather than electronically.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesFilm Base
The transparent support that carries the emulsion, historically nitrate or acetate and now usually polyester.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesFilm Grain
The visible texture produced by clumps of developed silver, which becomes more apparent with faster films and greater enlargement.
Post-Processing & RetouchingFilm Simulation
A colour and tone rendering designed to imitate the response of a specific photographic film.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesFilm Speed
A film's sensitivity to light, rated on the ISO scale and formerly as ASA or DIN.
Exposure & MeteringFilter Factor
The exposure increase, in stops or as a multiplier, needed to compensate for the light a filter absorbs.
Genres, Movements & TheoryFine Art Photography
Photography made primarily as an expressive work rather than to document, illustrate or sell a product.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersFisheye Lens
An ultra-wide lens that deliberately abandons rectilinear projection, bending straight lines to squeeze 180° or more into the frame.
Sensors & Digital CaptureFixed Pattern Noise
Noise that appears in the same places on every frame, caused by small manufacturing differences between photosites.
Film, Darkroom & Historic ProcessesFixer
A solution that dissolves the undeveloped silver halide, making the image permanent and no longer light-sensitive.
Lighting & FlashFlag
An opaque black panel placed to block light from reaching a specific area.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsFlange Focal Distance
The distance from a camera's lens mounting flange to the sensor or film plane.
Lighting & FlashFlash Duration
How long a flash's burst of light actually lasts, which sets its ability to freeze motion independently of shutter speed.
Lighting & FlashFlash Exposure Compensation
An offset applied to TTL flash output, in stops, independent of the ambient exposure compensation.
Lighting & FlashFlash Exposure Lock
A control that fires the metering preflash in advance and holds the resulting power setting for subsequent frames.
Lighting & FlashFlash Sync Speed
The fastest shutter speed at which a focal-plane shutter is fully open, and therefore the fastest speed at which flash can light the whole…
Sensors & Digital CaptureFlat Field Correction
Dividing an image by a frame of evenly illuminated field to remove vignetting, dust shadows and photosite sensitivity variation.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesFlat Picture Profile
A camera setting that reduces contrast and saturation to retain more information for later adjustment, without the full complexity of log.
Exposure & MeteringFlicker Reduction
A camera function that times the shutter release to the peak of a pulsing artificial light source, preventing exposure and colour shifts…
Optics, Lenses & FiltersFluorite Element
An element made of grown calcium fluoride crystal, which has exceptionally low dispersion and enables near-perfect colour correction.
Optics, Lenses & FiltersFocal Length
The distance from a lens's optical centre to the sensor when the lens is focused at infinity, which determines magnification and angle of…