Photo Forum Abbreviations

[TNH]

I found this on the internet- I thought some people would find it helpful.

It's a list of all the photography abbreviations used on most photography forums, with the full meanings.
I know when I first joined DPS, I had no clue what all those abbreviations meant! So hopefully this will help some of the newer members know what we're all talking about.
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Photo Forum Abbreviations

100% crop- A section of a full sized image cropped at an 1:1 ratio

AE- Auto Exposure

AF- Auto Focus

AP- Aperture Priority

AS- Antishake - often understood to be the same as Image Stabilization, but may only refer to a camera automatically increasing ISO

Aspect Ratio - Ratio of width to height for an image

CAF- Continuous Auto Focus

CL- Craigslist

CPL - Circular polarizer

DOF- Depth of Field

DZ- Digital Zoom

EC- Exposure Compensation

EV- Exposure Value

FB- Facebook

FOV- Field of View

GND - Graduated Neutral Density filter

IMO- In my Opinion

IQ- Image Quality

IS- Image Stabilization - usually refers to optical IS

ISO- Number indicating a digital camera sensors sensitivity to light

LR-Lightroom. Another Adobe photo processing program. Cousin to Photoshop.

MF- Manual Focus

ND - Neutral Density filter

NI- Neat Image - noise reduction software

NN- Noise Ninja – noise reduction software

NR- Noise Reduction

NT or (NT)- comments written only in a subject line of a post, indicating no reply in the main subject area

OIS- Optical Image Stabilization

OOF- Out of Focus

OP- Original Poster – person who starts a new forum topic

OZ- Optical Zoom

PIC- Picture

PICS, PIX- Pictures

POV- Point of View

PP- Post Processing - editing digital images

PS- Photoshop - photo editing program considered by many to be the "gold standard"

PSE- Photoshop Elements - "little brother" of Photoshop

PSP- Paintshop Pro - similar to Photoshop but less expensive

QFT - Quoted for truth

SOC/SOOC-Straight out of Camera (no post processing was done on the image.)

SP- Shutter Priority

TCon- Telephoto converters for increasing focal length.

TFS - Thanks for sharing

USM- Unsharp Mask - sharpening tool found in many photo editing programs

VR - Vibration reduction

WB- White Balance

WCon- Wide Angle Converters

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Website I found it on originally: Abbreviations used in photography forums
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Hope someone finds this list helpful! I sure would have liked to have seen it months ago!

[Krusty79]

Aspect Ratio - Ratio of width to height for an image
CPL - Circular polarizer
GND - Graduated Neutral Density filter
ND - Neutral Density filter
VR - Vibration reduction

[SwissJon]

QFT - Quoted for truth.. When someone says something profound that you can really relate to.. Or more often because they've said something profoundly dumb and you quote them because they think the OP might change it after stirring up trouble.

TFS - Thanks for sharing.

[NathanFranke]

RTFM--Read the farctate manual.

LR--Lightroom. Another Adobe photo processing program. Cousin to Photoshop.
SOC/SOOC--Straight out of Camera--no post processing was done on the image

FB-facebook
CL-craigslist--these two websites come up a lot in conversation.

[graciousness]

This is a great thread and great idea. We have so many newcomers that don't know most, if not, all of the abbreviations we use here and the more seasoned forum users use abbreviations a lot.

Heck, even I don't know half of the list!

So cheers for this and I hope others keep adding on the list.

[TNH]

Thanks for the new ones, guys! Keep them coming!

I'll add them to the list later when I have time. Right now, it's been a long day, and I just want to sit here and not have to think about anything... LOL

[Jonbar18]

Don't forget TL;DR

[TNH]

Originally Posted by graciousness

This is a great thread and great idea. We have so many newcomers that don't know most, if not, all of the abbreviations we use here and the more seasoned forum users use abbreviations a lot.

Heck, even I don't know half of the list!

So cheers for this and I hope others keep adding on the list.

Thanks, I thought so too.

Yeah, I found some that I hadn't heard before too! Maybe we'll start using some of them that we don't use already!

[TNH]

Hey... maybe if the Mods made this thread a Sticky or something, all the new people could find it better.

Just an idea.

[jmg]

I think it's a good idea! I didn't know a lot of them! I keep going back to this to see what something means... It would be a whole lot easier if it was a Sticky!