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Painting with light, open flash

Pan head, tripod


Panning

Panoramic/ stitch mode of digital cameras

Panoramic format single use cameras

Paper grades, enlarging, see Graded contrast photo papers

Paper safe, for photo papers

Parallax errors

                With digital cameras

Parallax correction/compensation

Passive phase detection autofocus system

PC card adapter, for memory cards

PC cords for flash

PC lenses, see Perspective-correction (PC) lenses

PC Photo

PDN (Photo District News)

PEI, PHOTO> Electronic Imaging

Pellicle mirror in SLR viewfinder

Pentaprism, in SLR viewfinder

Periodicals, photography

Perspective-correction (PC) lenses

Petersens’s PHOTOgraphic

Photocells, exposure meter

Photo credit line

Photo editor, see Image-editing software

Photo equipment, buying abroad

Photo essay, or telling a story

                In slide show

                In travel pictures

Photofinishers

                Automated fast-process mini-labs

                Automated photo making machine

                Cost of

                Local

                Mail-order

                Online

                Photoflood bulbs

                Photograms, darkrooms

Photographer’s Market

Photographic copying

Photographic Gray card, see Gray card

Photographic prints

                Analyzing

                From digital images

                Scanning

                Selecting best

                See also Processing films and prints

Photographic terms, foreign

Photographic umbrella

Photographs, showing

                Display location

                Framing and mounting for

                Selecting best

                Slide shows

                On Web sites

Photography books

 

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Photography definition of

Photomicrography

Photomacrography

Photo paper

                Archival permanence of

                For contact prints

                For enlarging

                Storage of

                Speed of

                Types of, see Fiber-base paper photo paper, Resin –coated (RC) photo paper

                Weight of

Photo-quality printers, see Printers for digital photos

Photo-quality print paper, see Print paper, for digital photos

Photo-quality prints, from digital images

Photo/snapshot scanners

Photo Techniques

Photo tours

Photo vest

Physiograph

Picture elements, see Pixels

Picture quality information exchange (PQIX)

Pistol grip for cameras

Pixelization, of digital images

Pixels per inch, see ppi

Plane of focus

Pocket instamatic camera

Point-and-shoot cameras, see compact cameras, digital cameras, point and shoot

Point of focus indicator, lens

Point of reference, composition

Polarizing filters

Polaroid films,  see Instant films

Polaroid Instant 35mm slide system

Polaroid instant camera, see Instant cameras

Popular Photography

Portable digital storage devices

Portraits

                Lighting for

Ppi ( pixels per inch )

PQIX, picture quality information exchange feature, of APS cameras

Predictive autofocus

Preflash

Prefocus

Prepaid film processing mailers

Primary colors in photography

Print dryer

 

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Printers for digital photos

                Brands of

                Ink cartridges for                

                Resolution of

                Speeds of

                Types of

                See also Dye-sublimation printers, inkjet printers, laser printers

Print format control

Print formats, for digital photo prints

Printing filters, for black and white photo papers

Print ordering procedures for digital photos

Print papers

                Archival permanence of

                Brands of

                Brightness of

                Handling of

                Thickness of

                Types of

                Weight of

                Widths of

Print sizes

                Digital printers and

                Instant cameras

Print storage

Print tongs

Print washer

Process C-41

 

 

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Processing films and prints

                Analyzing faults in your photographs

                Chemicals

                Contact proof sheet, making

                Developing film

                Enlargements, making, see Enlargements, making equipment for

                Equipment for

                Push processing

                Self processing

                Steps for developing film

                When traveling

                See also Photofinishers

Professional film

Professional Photographer

Professional Photographers of America (PPA)

Professional Photography

Programmed exposure mode

Projecting slides, see Slide shows

Projection screens

Projector bulbs

Projector lenses

Projectors, see Slide projectors

Proof prints/sheets

Property released

Protecting the camera

Protection mode, of digital cameras

Push processing

 

Quartz-halogen bulbs

Quick-release, tripod

Quick return mirror

 

Radio signal wireless TTL triggering systems

Radio slave signal device

Rainbows, photographing

RAM (random access memory) in computers

Random access memory, see RAM

Rangefinder cameras

RAW image format

                See also Digital image file format

RC Photo Paper, see Resin-coated paper

Read only memory, see ROM

Ready light, flash

Real image viewfinders

Rear-curtain sync shutter

Recapture rate in digital cameras

Rechargeable batteries

                For digital cameras

Reciprocity effect, film

Recordable discs, see also CDs, DVDs, Rewritable discs

Recordable drives

                Speeds of

                See also Rewritable drives

Recording modes, of digital cameras

Recording pixels, see Effective pixels, of digital cameras

Recycle rate in digital cameras

Recycle time in digital cameras

Red-eye flash

Red-eye reduction

Red-eye reduction mode of digital cameras

Red-eye reduction pen

Reflected light exposure meter readings

Reflections

                Avoiding

                Filters

Reflectors, light

 

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Reflex type telephoto lenses

Release priority, autofocus

Remote controls

                For camera

                For slide projector

Remote cord

Remote flash sensor

Remote flash sensor cord, flash

Repeating flash mode, see multiple flash

Reproduction ratio, for close-ups

Resin-coated (RC) paper

Resizing digital images, with image-editing software,

Resolution

                In digital cameras

                Of digital images

                In printers

                In scanners

Resolution/resolving power of film

Reversal film, see black and white film, reversal (slide); color reversal (slide)

Reversing normal or wide angle lens

Reversing ring, lens

Rewind crank/knob

Rewritable disks

                See also CDs, DVDs, recordable disks

 

 

Rewritable drives

                Speeds of

                See also recordable drives

Ring light. Flash

Roll film

ROM (read only memory)

Rule of thirds, composition

 

Sabattier effect, darkroom

Safelights, see Darkroom safelights

Sandwiching images

Scanners

                Color depth/bit of depth

                Dynamic range/density range of

                Resolution of

                Speed of

                See also Drum scanners, Film scanners, Flatbed scanners, Photo/snapshot scanners

Schools of photography

Screw-in filters

Screw mount, for lenses

Seamless paper, for background

Secondary colors in photography

Secondary flash head

Second curtain sync shutter

Selective contrast photo papers, see Variable contrast photo papers

Selenium cells, exposure meter

 

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Self-timer

                In digital camera

Selling photographs

                Series filters

Set screw filter adapter

Shade, shooting subjects in

Shadows

                Exposure for

                Flash photography

                See also bounce flash, fill flash

Sharpness of lens

Sheet film

Shift lenses, see Variable contrast photo papers

Shoe mount flash

                Features of

Shoot list

Shoulder brace, for cameras

Shutterbug

Shutter lag, in digital cameras

Shutter-preferred cameras

Shutters

                Cold weather

                Recocking, for multiple exposures

                Types of

                See also focal plane shutter, leaf shutter

Shutter speeds

                B shutter setting

                Compact cameras

                F/stops

                interrelationship of

                macrolenses

                setting of

                stop action and see Stop-action

                telephoto lenses and

                T shutter setting

                See also specific photographic conditions and effects

                Shutter synchronization with flash

                Side lighting

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