Say cheese: these digital photo ops can change your business's image

Entrepreneur, June, 1999 by Jill Amadio

Here are terms you may come across in your search for a digital camera:

Bracketing: Programming the camera to capture the same image several times at different exposures.

CCD (Charged Coupled Device): An image sensor that digitally stores patterns of light charges.

Megapixel: Offering a million or more pixels. The greater the number of pixels, the finer and crisper the image.

Resolution: The quality of a digital camera's photos is directly proportional to its resolution. Resolution is usually expressed in megapixels or as a matrix of horizontal pixels by vertical pixels.

Sequence shooting: Is when a camera takes several photos continuously to follow an action shot, such as how a machine works or the progression of a golf swing.

Stitching: Allows multiple images to be joined together for wide-angle views.

Watermarking: Adds time, date, logos and specific text to photo images.

Jill Amadio is a freelance writer in Newport Beach, California, who has covered technology for nine years.