Getting to Know Your Camera

Battery status symbol

• allows you to adjust how light, or dark your video appears

• ways to manipulate your footage in order to stimulate central theme

  
  

• indicates the amount of charge remaining in the battery

  
  

Record symbol

• press this button to begin recording

  
  

•  red circle

  
  

• unprocessed footage from an image sensor file

  
  

Zoom

• the ability to change your field of view without moving the camera

  
  

•   built-in flash, dedicated photo shutter button and photo scene modes will be superior performers in the still photo department

  
  

• number of horizontal lines a video has from top to bottom; the more lines equals sharper resolution

  
  

Face detection

• type of media that stores your digital videos

  
  

• the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo

  
  

• the ability to find and focus on faces in front of a camcorder

  
  

Raw video

•   turns the camera on and off

  
  

• unprocessed footage from an image sensor file

  
  

•  type of media that stores your digital videos

  
  

Power switch

• turns the camera on and off

  
  

• press this button to begin recording

•  the ability to change your field of view without moving the camera

  
  

Tripod

• allows you to adjust how light, or dark your video appears

• turns the camera on and off

  
  

• a three-legged stand for supporting a camera

Image stabilization

• technology to reduce video blur that results from shaky hands or body movement

  
  

• number of horizontal lines a video has from top to bottom; the more lines equals sharper resolution

  
  

• he device inside your camcorder that transforms the light coming through the lens into a digital signal that gets recorded by your camcorder

  
  

Record button

• turns the camera on and off

• the ability to change your field of view without moving the camera

• press this button to begin recording

  
  

Exposure control

• ways to manipulate your footage in order to stimulate central theme

  
  

• allows you to adjust how light, or dark your video appears

• amount of digital data your camcorder can record at any given second