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I'm really new to this site and digital photography in general. What I want to ask is, is ther somwhere on this site that gives the long meaning to all the acronyms that people are using? Sorry if this seems like something silly to ask but i'm getting lost halfway through some comments because people are using just letters. Obviously they know what they are talkng about and I can figure some out but get lost with others.
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Old 03-17-2009, 04:57 AM
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I'm really new to this site and digital photography in general. What I want to ask is, is ther somwhere on this site that gives the long meaning to all the acronyms that people are using? Sorry if this seems like something silly to ask but i'm getting lost halfway through some comments because people are using just letters. Obviously they know what they are talkng about and I can figure some out but get lost with others.

Any acronyms in particular that you would like a meaning to?
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Most of them!!!!!!!!!!!
PP, DDR i think can't remember most
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PP Post Production (editing)
HDR High Dynamic Range
DOF Depth of Field
OOF Out Of Focus
SOOC Straight out of camera

others are camera specific so is quite normal like AE-L and MF
MF Manual Focus
AE-L Exposure lock
AF Auto Focus
ISO (not an acronym.. it just looks like one)



if in doubt just ask, its always a tad confusng to start with
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PP Post Production (editing)
HDR High Dynamic Range
DOF Depth of Field
OOF Out Of Focus
SOOC Straight out of camera

others are camera specific so is quite normal like AE-L and MF
MF Manual Focus
AE-L Exposure lock
AF Auto Focus
ISO (not an acronym.. it just looks like one)



if in doubt just ask, its always a tad confusng to start with
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Thanking you most kindly that is very helpful of you
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Old 03-17-2009, 06:07 AM
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Just follow all my threads and posts, I don't use them

My greatest hate is LOL, makes me feel like grabbing a baseball bat. Why not just say, "that is funny" or "what a laugh". but we live in the world of web that created these things, they were not created by sms.

And we wonder why teens cannot spell, think, or socialize.
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And we wonder why teens cannot spell, think, or socialize.
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just to tick you off

i'm far from teen by the way
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PP Post Production (editing)
HDR High Dynamic Range
DOF Depth of Field
OOF Out Of Focus
SOOC Straight out of camera

others are camera specific so is quite normal like AE-L and MF
MF Manual Focus
AE-L Exposure lock
AF Auto Focus
ISO (not an acronym.. it just looks like one)



if in doubt just ask, its always a tad confusng to start with
happy snapping
These are not acronyms, this is Photography language. And now I know what SOOC means and OOF, not that I will use them. B&W, DOF and ISO are about it.
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Do you know, I was about to go on a bit of a light hearted pendant trip, since I was sure ISO stood for International Organisation for Standardisation. I'd always assumed the difference in letter order was due to it being spelt in French, but I thought I'd look it up to make sure.

Turns out that ISO does stand for International Organisation for Standardisation, but is not actually an acronym for it.Weird, huh?
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Do you know, I was about to go on a bit of a light hearted pendant trip, since I was sure ISO stood for International Organisation for Standardisation. I'd always assumed the difference in letter order was due to it being spelt in French, but I thought I'd look it up to make sure.

Turns out that ISO does stand for International Organisation for Standardisation, but is not actually an acronym for it.Weird, huh?

yup.. i work with it all the time being an engineer
ISO standards for process flow diagrams, symbols, safety guarding... you name it


every time i'm at work and i reference a standard i think of photography
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