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Acquire a DSLR. DSLRs have many advantages over point and shoot cameras that are crucial in sports photography, including: high ISO capability, fast shutter speeds, no shutter lag, faster auto-focus, interchangeable lenses, ...

Acquire:
Refers to the opening up and importing of files into a given software application or into the operating system. It is most often done through a twain interface or plug-in mini-application.
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The act of transferring an image from a digital camera to a computer or of importing it from another source into a program, such as Photoshop.
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Acquire - To import digital image files into a software application for processing or editing purposes.

Acquire Examples: Linear Acquire
Linear mode allows you to acquire a 16-bit image with all 10-bits of information maintained, this can sometimes allow you to eek out a little more dynamic range from a contrasty image.

Acquire Plug-in - A connection that allows for communication between a digital camera and image editing software.

Acquire
The process of transferring an image from the capture source (digital camera or scanner) to a computer.

acquire
computer command, typically under "File" menu, that allows the start of scanning software directly from the application. Acquire is only available if the software is TWAIN-compliant.

Acquire
The opening up and importing of files into a given software application. The term is applied differently with in different types of software.

Acquire and the computer would connect to the scanner or frame grabber and operate it from within the program.
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I acquired a Canon AT-1 with 50mm f/1.8 lens on eBay for $96. After running a test roll through, I discovered that the camera had a light leak. Fortunately the seller was nice enough to send me some light baffle material for free.

Sony acquired Konica Minolta's camera technologies in 2006, and chose the "α" (alpha) brand name, already in use by Minolta in Asia, for their new "Sony α" digital SLR system.

Find and acquire black plastic straws. (I found some at a certain nationwide bakery chain). Ask for permission to take a handful. If you don't ask, you can actually be charged with theft.
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I recently acquired a Yashica Mat 124 G for $25. It is in excellent condition but the meter does not work.

NIH Image can acquire, display, edit, enhance, analyze, and animate images.

INPUT Several ways to acquire photographs electronically are used. You can obtain these photographs from digital or still-video cameras, or you can scan and digitize existing film and paper images.

Just after I acquired Lightroom my wife needed a slide show of her business trip to Argentina. She is a professional trip planner, yeah, a hard job but somebody's got to do it. I imported her images into Lightroom's 'Library' module.

When celebrity photographer Mark Seliger acquired the old brick building at the corner of Charles Street and the West Side Highway in 1997, his friends couldn't understand why he wanted a place in such an unfashionable area, ...

Imagine working in a photo stock agency where you're told to find a photo of "Yosemite" only to discover that all of the photos the agency ever acquired are stored in unorganized boxes.

Tiffen, an American manufacturer, sell an extensive range of general photography products acquired over the years - from Steadicam camera rigs to Barbie-branded toy cameras to Domke camera bags - though they are best known for their filters.

To that end, its American division acquired Digital Audio Disk Corporation from its affiliate CBS/Sony. Sony then purchased CBS Records for $2 billion during 1987.

The exposure compensation setting allows you to acquire better exposures in tricky lighting situations. Backlighting is the most common culprit that fools a meter into thinking there’s too much light resulting in an image that’s too dark.

Although the camera, when new, rarely was supplied with a shutter, the lens cap usually sufficed, some acquired an add-on shutter of one sort or another.

The grains from region B, which received a very low initial exposure, acquired some surface subimage specks.

I took hundreds of photos and acquired a collection of three-four 1200 memory cards by the time I was twelve, because I was a believer in ‘the more photos you take, the greater the chance one will stun you.

It can take years to acquire the experience and develop the skills to quickly and effectively pose models, especially female models.

Once a digital file has been acquired, the astonishing tonal control of the digital darkroom can be accessed. The single most powerful and precise tool for tonal adjustment in Adobe Photoshop (the current apex of digital-imaging software) is Curves.

THz light cannot be seen with the naked eye or acquired by CCD cameras.

My situation is somewhat unique, in that I exclusively use the DVC format to acquire images. The Digital Video does give me huge selection to work from. Consider 30 frames per second and shooting 10 or 20 seconds of video as a minimum.

Many amateur camera owners go out of their way to acquire equipment that is capable of producing the highest number of pixels. They then adjust the quality setting in the menu in order to get more images on their photo memory card.

None of them would be able to express that vision without having acquired the craft.

After much experimenting with my newly acquired Nikon D50 slr, I am absolutely non-plussed as to why I cannot get results as clear, let alone better, than my coolpix camera.

It was with much effort that master photographer Lee Friedlander acquired the negative plates, after there discovery in an old sofa in 1971. Ernest Joseph Bellocq published a book called Storyville Portraits.

If you are reading this offline, on your buddy Eugene's machine while he is playing Super Mario 64, or at the library - or if you simply have not yet acquired all the equipment to run your own "digital darkroom" at home - you may skip this page.

Digitized images which have been "acquired" (scanned, captured by digital cameras) can be manipulated. The purpose may be simply to improve the image - change its size, its color, or simply to touch-up parts of it.

One of the most important perceptual skills to acquire is the ability to think both within and out of the frame. Many photographers spend a great deal of time learning to make a finished composition with the borders of the viewfinder.

Digicams need time to 'turn on', acquire focus, check exposure, and heat up the flash.

A small file thats dropped into the acquire folder of programs such as Photoshop. Then you would go to TwainAcquire and the computer would connect to the scanner or frame grabber and operate it from within the program.

If you already own late-model point-and shoots and don’t wish to acquire a second underwater model, Canon, Sony, Olympus and underwater specialists like Epoque offer another solution—attractively compact underwater housings and kits.

So you finally acquired your dream camera, a digital SLR, you fired up your computer, and you are now gazing lovingly at the scene you captured earlier. But wait! What are those black specks cluttering up your beautiful blue sky.

Just because you hold the camera doesn't mean you automatically acquire eminent domain over all marine life encounters.

Barrel Distortion - A common geometric lens distortion causing an acquired image to pucker toward the center.
Bit - The smallest unit of memory; a contraction from 'binary' and 'digit'. Binary digits are 0 and 1, also known as ons and offs.

Not to be confused with Open Source software, free software is software which does not cost anything to acquire or use. Often, but not always, free software will consist of cut-down or demonstration versions of purchasable software.

Given a constant acceleration from gravity, the farther water falls the more velocity it will have acquired.

To learn how to take pictures of food photographers must acquire knowledge of light, camera angles and the nature of the food being photographed.

the time of shooting this project, I had not yet mentally made the transition from film to digital and being aware of the potentially freezing conditions, decided to do the winter shoot with M6 film Leicas and F6 Nikons rather than recently acquired ...

Capture - The process by which a digital image is acquired as a digital file, either by a digital camera or by digitally scanning with analog material (film / prints).

The concept of the 'Holiday' album is to acquire many different points of view from the same occasion; all captured with photographs.

Over the years I have acquired and used cameras made by Canon, Leica, Mamiya, Honeywell, Bell & Howell, and several other manufacturers, but have finally chosen Nikon as my camera of choice because of their rugged construction and unbeatab...

This may sound like a good thing, but many wildlife and sports photographers use continuous servo autofocus priority for the following reason - the camera will constantly update the focus after it's been acquired if you hold the shutter button ...

I know Little Debbie has quite an active Facebook account. They acquired over 500,000 fans recently with their Cupcake Share-a-thon Facebook campaign.
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Brometching - obsolete, special method of producing a bromide print. The result acquired the texture of its support and appeared similar to an etching.

Pin-Cushioning. This is a common geometric lens distortion causing an acquired image to pucker toward the centre of the image, usually found at telephoto focal lengths.

stands for Windows Image Acquisition. This allows your digital camera, scanner, Photoshop, and Windows XP or ME to work together to acquire images.
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Underwater photography is a definite combination of equipment and techniques, each dependant on the other. Finances permitting, the equipment is comparatively simple to acquire.

He was, I hope, saying that this understanding made my photographs say 'beach' in a way the photographs he'd just made might not - that somehow this deep understanding I had acquired after all that photography on the beach was embedded in the ...

EV (exposure value) is an expression of all the possible shutter speed, film/image sensor sensitivity (ISO) and aperture value combinations to acquire the same exposure.
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When I acquired a digital camera I was pleased to learn that color correction filters for indoor lighting were no longer necessary. Instead, the "white balance" setting on my camera took on the same task as those filters.

can only be learned by experience that you cannot obtain a complete education from a wedding photography home study course. This does not mean that you should go into wedding photography with no practice, but it does mean that you need to acquire ...

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