Episode 5: Photo Lingo

Lingo (the special vocabulary groups of people use to signal knowledge) can be an obstacle for people learning photography. In this episode Mason and Jeff work to tear down portions of the photo lingo wall. From camera terms like “mirrorless” and “full-frame” to alphabet soup acronyms like “DSLR”, “JPEG” and “ISO”, these lingo terms need to be understood to master photography, but thanks to traditions, stubbornness and arrogance it can be hard to learn these without help. Spend an hour with us and you’ll have the meanings behind the lingo that plagues photography.

Here’s a partial list of the lingo we Photocombobulate:

Mirrorless vs. DSLR cameras

Full-Frame vs. Crop Sensors

Lens Focal Lengths

OIS, IBIS and other ways to say Image Stabilization

Raw vs. JPEG file formats

Aperture & F-Stops

Shutter Speed & Time Value

ISO

Zoom vs. Prime Lenses and Wide, Standard, Telephoto and Macro Lenses

Processing vs. Post-Processing

Catalogs, Libraries and Files

Destructive vs. Non-Destructive Editing

If you’d like to see what we look like while we recorded this episode, you can watch a lightly-edited video version of the show here: