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  2. List of abbreviations in photography - Wikipedia

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    Also may mean "Perspective Control" for a lens that has the ability to shift to tilt to control linear perspective in an image. May also stand for personal computer in conjunction with digital photography. PDAF: Phase-detection autofocus. One of the mechanisms of automatic lens focusing. PF: Purple fringing. A form of chromatic aberration in ...

  3. Duotone - Wikipedia

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    Due to recent advances in technology, duotones, tritones, and quadtones can be easily created using image manipulation programs. Duotone color mode in Adobe Photoshop computes the highlights and middle tones of a monochrome (grayscale or black-and-white) image in one color, and allows the user to choose any color as the second color.

  4. Cabinet card - Wikipedia

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    Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de visite as the most popular form of portraiture. The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from across the room when typically displayed on a cabinet, which is probably why ...

  5. Hyperfocal distance - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between the two meanings is rarely made, since they have almost identical values. The value computed according to the first definition exceeds that from the second by just one focal length. Definition 1 The hyperfocal distance is the closest distance at which a lens can be focused while keeping objects at infinity acceptably ...

  6. Rule of thirds - Wikipedia

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    Sir Joshua has given it as a rule, that the proportion of warm to cold colour in a picture should be as two to one, although he has frequently deviated therefrom; and Smith, in his "Remarks on Rural Scenery," would extend a like rule to all the proportions of painting, begging for it the term of the "rule of thirds," according to which, a ...

  7. Dualphotography - Wikipedia

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    Dualphotography is the photography technique of simultaneously taking two photographs of one scene, thus capturing a scene from both sides of the photographic device at once. In other words, it is the practice of creating a photographic scene from two opposing or complementary sides of a single real-world situation.

  8. Image resolution - Wikipedia

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    The term applies to digital images, film images, and other types of images. "Higher resolution" means more image detail. Image resolution can be measured in various ways. Resolution quantifies how close lines can be to each other and still be visibly resolved. Resolution units can be tied to physical sizes (e.g. lines per mm, lines per inch ...

  9. Snapshot (photography) - Wikipedia

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    The term arose from the fascination of artists with the "classical" black-and-white vernacular snapshot, the characteristics of which were: 1) they were made with a hand-held camera on which the viewfinder could not easily 'see' the edges of the frame, [citation needed] unlike modern cheap digital cameras with electronic viewfinder, and so the ...