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Video Mode: A setting on a digital still camera that allows it to capture short segments of low resolution video.

Viewfinder: A viewfinder is what the photographer will look through to compose, and in many cases to focus, a picture. A viewfinder can indicate either optically or electronically, what will appear in the field of view of the lens.

Volatile Memory: A type of memory that loses its contents when the power is turned off.

Vignette: The transition of color from one set value of hue and saturation to another over a given distance. Also called gradation.



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