Photo, movie or display measuring 640 x 480 pixels. This was once used to describe a popular display standard for older PCs, and indicates a screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. Nowadays, it’s used by digital camera makers to [...]
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A low-resolution movie format now only seen on cheaper cameras. QVGA stands for ‘quarter VGA’ and corresponds to a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.
This is a movie file format developed by Apple which is related to the generic Motion JPEG format. It’s a format used by many digital cameras for their movie mode. QuickTime movies are single standalone movie files which you can [...]
All compact digital cameras now include a movie mode and, in many cases, the quality is now good enough to rival conventional digital cameras. Movie modes are ideal for shooting short video ’snapshots’ for YouTube or sharing online, but you [...]
MPEG is a family of formats for recording movies and sound. MPEG2 is used for broadcast TV, while MPEG4 is often used for digital camera movie modes. It’s not to be confused with Motion JPEG (or M-JPEG) which is an alternative [...]
Normally, ‘frame rate’ describes the numbers of frames per second in movie footable. Sometimes, though, it’s also used to describe the continuous shooting speed of a stills camera. In practice, people use ‘frame rate’ and ‘fps’ interchangeably.
AVI is a movie format developed by Microsoft and many digital cameras save movies as AVI files. Others use the QuickTime or Motion JPEG format. The differences are complex and technical, but as far as casual users are concerned they [...]