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SLR Camera: The most expensive of all digital cameras, digital SLRs offer complete manual control, higher resolution, advanced exposure control, and the benefits of detachable lenses. Due to the lens design, digital SLR's are not capable of shooting video.
SLR-Style Camera: With protruding lenses and large hand grips, SLR-styles cameras have bodies that are physically similar to actual SLR cameras. Unlike proper SLRs, however, these cameras do not have "through-the-lens" viewfinders and do not accept interchangeable lenses.
SmartMedia: A digital camera memory format currently used by some Olympus and Fuji cameras. These companies are using xD-Picture cards in their newer cameras, raising the possibility that the SmartMedia format is on the way out. SmartMedia cards are available in sizes up to 128MB.
TIFF: Short for Tagged Image File Format, TIFF is an image file format that does not lose any quality when it is saved and compressed. Many advanced cameras offer a TIFF format option.
Ultra Compact Camera: Ultra compact cameras are generally one inch or less thick, and small enough to be held in the palm of a hand. While these cameras do not offer all the manual controls of larger models, they still are capable of producing high quality images.
xD-Picture Card: Released in Early 2002 by Olympus and Fuji, xD-Picture Card is the newest digital camera memory format. Physically smaller than all other memory formats, and available (as of 5/03) in sizes up to 256MB, the xD-Picture Card appears poised to replace the older SmartMedia format.
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