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General:
AD - Actual day photographer(wedding)
AFAIK - As far as I know
BBB Buy Buy Buy
BG - Background
BNP - Buy Now Price
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By The Way
CAM - Camera
CD - Compact disc
CF - Compact Flash (card)
CMI - cannot make it
CS - ClubSNAP
Ctrl - Control
DCMI - die also cannot make it
DOA - Dead on Arrival, mostly associated with buying from overseas, upon delivery equipment or lens faulty.
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
FYI - For your information
HD - Hard Disk a.k.a HDD for Hard Disk Drive
HWZ - Hardwarezone
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMO - In my opinion
IIRC - If I remember correctly
IOW - in other words
IRL - in real life
JK - Just Kidding
KIV - Keep in view
KNS - kena sai
KLKK - Walk here Walk there
LOL - laughing out loud
m(_ _)m - i'm kowtowing to you/i beg u
MO - Mass order
MTL - Mai Tu Liao
MSS - Mai Siao Siao
MUA - Make Up Artist
MWTB - may want to buy
MWTS - may want to sell
MWTT - may want to trade
NN TTL - Nope this is not the latest TTL flash technology ..its 'Neh Neh Tua Tua Liap'
NPNT - No photo no talk
OMG - Oh My God
ONO - Or Nearest Offer
OSM - Oversea model
OT - Out of Topic
PA - Photographer's assistant
PITA - Pain in the As*
PLBTAC - Problem lies bet table and chair
PLBV - Problem lies behind viewfinder (usually follows after RTFM...)
PSS - photographic society of singapore
RTFM - Read the *ucking Manual or Read the FREE Manual
RP - Reserve Price
ROFL - Rolling on the floor laughing
RTFLMAO - Rolling on The Floor Laughing My Ass Out
SD - Secure Digital (card)
STFU - Shut The *uck Up
TBA - To Be Announced
TBC - TO be Confirmed
TFCD - Time For CD ... layman terms, we take images of you....you get a CD
TIA Thanks in advance
TS - Thread starter
TTYL - Talk To You Later
WLEBBQ - Wah lan eh BBQ
WTB - Want to buy
WTF - What the *uck
WTR - Want to Rent
WTS - Want To Sell
WTT - Want To Trade
XMM - Xiao Mei Mei
XDD - Xiao Di Di
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
Camera Shops:
AP - Alan Photo
CP - Cathay Photo
MS - MS Colour, AMK
TCW - The Camera Workshop
John 3:16 - Nope....not the BIBLE but a shop in Funan Centre, 5th Floor
Camera Accessories Shop:
EG - EastGear
PPCP - Perfect Pixel Camera Parts
SSK - ShaSkinKi.com
Photography-related terms:
AE - Auto Exposure
AEL - Auto Exposure Lock
AF - Auto Focus
APAD - A Photo A Day
AS - Anti-Shake (Konica Minolta term)
Av - Aperture Priority (Canon) (A for Nikon)
AWB - Auto White Balance
AWL - Advanced Wireless Lighting (Nikon term)
CA - Chromatic Abberrations
CCD - Charged Coupled Device (Sensor)
CLS - Creative Lighting System (Nikon term)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (Sensor)
C. Fn. - Custom Function (Canon, not sure of other brands)
DO - Diffractive Optics (lens element) (Canon)
DOF - Depth of Field
DSLR - Digital Single Lens Reflex (camera)
EV - Exposure
FE - Fish-eye (lens)
FEL - Flash Exposure Lock (Canon)
HDR - High Dynamic Range
HSM - Hyper Sonic Motor (Sigma)
IF - Internal Focusing
IQ - Image Quality
IS - Image Stabilizer (Canon)
LF - Large Format
LR - Adobe LightRoom
LV - Live View
MF - Medium Format OR Manual Focus
OIS - Optical Image Stabilizer (Panasonic term)
OOF - Out of Focus
OS - Optical Stabiliser (Sigma) OR Operating System (Computer term)
PP - Post Process
PS - Photoshop
PS CS - PhotoShop Creative Suite (this is usually joined)
RF - Rangefinder (camera)
SLR - Single Lens Reflex (camera)
SSS - Super Steady Shot (Sony term)
SSWF - Supersonic Wave Filter (Olympus term)
SWD - Supersonic Wave Drive (Olympus term)
SWM - Silent Wave Motor (Nikon Term)
Sync - Synchro
TFCD - Time For CD
TFP - Time For Prints
TTL Through the lens (A mode for flash)
Tv - Shutter Priority (Canon) (S for Nikon)
UD - Ultra-low Dispersion (lens element) (Canon)
USM - Ultrasonic Motor (not Unsharp Mask, as originally posted)(Canon term)
VR - Vibration Reduction (Nikon term)
WA - Wide Angle
WB - White Balance
File types / Images terms:
BMP - BIT MAP
DNG - Adobe Digital Negative
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
JPEG/JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
NEF - Nikon Electronic Format (Nikon's RAW format)
ORF - Olympus RAW format
PEF - Pentax RAW format
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PSD - Photoshop file
TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
"Nicknames" or alternative names:
Bokeh - Blur background
PRATA - Reflector
Strobes - usually artificial light ....e.g. studio lights
Tupperware - Lightsphere
upz - To bring up your/someone's thread to the top of the page.
Special Terms(Nikonians' idols):
KRW - The Venerable Ken Rockwell
*** - The Venerable Ken Rockwell
GF - Gary Fong(inventor of the LightSphere, The LightSphere II, The LightSphere Photojournalist II)
GFLS - Gary Fong LightSphere/II/PJII
RG - Rob Galbraith
Places:
SLS - Sim Lim Square
JBP - Jurong Bird Park
SBG (or BG) - Singapore Botanical Gardens
MOG - Mandai Orchid Garden
General:
AD - Actual day photographer(wedding)
AFAIK - As far as I know
BBB Buy Buy Buy
BG - Background
BNP - Buy Now Price
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By The Way
CAM - Camera
CD - Compact disc
CF - Compact Flash (card)
CMI - cannot make it
CS - ClubSNAP
Ctrl - Control
DCMI - die also cannot make it
DOA - Dead on Arrival, mostly associated with buying from overseas, upon delivery equipment or lens faulty.
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
FYI - For your information
HD - Hard Disk a.k.a HDD for Hard Disk Drive
HWZ - Hardwarezone
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMO - In my opinion
IIRC - If I remember correctly
IOW - in other words
IRL - in real life
JK - Just Kidding
KIV - Keep in view
KNS - kena sai
KLKK - Walk here Walk there
LOL - laughing out loud
m(_ _)m - i'm kowtowing to you/i beg u
MO - Mass order
MTL - Mai Tu Liao
MSS - Mai Siao Siao
MUA - Make Up Artist
MWTB - may want to buy
MWTS - may want to sell
MWTT - may want to trade
NN TTL - Nope this is not the latest TTL flash technology ..its 'Neh Neh Tua Tua Liap'
NPNT - No photo no talk
OMG - Oh My God
ONO - Or Nearest Offer
OSM - Oversea model
OT - Out of Topic
PA - Photographer's assistant
PITA - Pain in the As*
PLBTAC - Problem lies bet table and chair
PLBV - Problem lies behind viewfinder (usually follows after RTFM...)
PSS - photographic society of singapore
RTFM - Read the *ucking Manual or Read the FREE Manual
RP - Reserve Price
ROFL - Rolling on the floor laughing
RTFLMAO - Rolling on The Floor Laughing My Ass Out
SD - Secure Digital (card)
STFU - Shut The *uck Up
TBA - To Be Announced
TBC - TO be Confirmed
TFCD - Time For CD ... layman terms, we take images of you....you get a CD
TIA Thanks in advance
TS - Thread starter
TTYL - Talk To You Later
WLEBBQ - Wah lan eh BBQ
WTB - Want to buy
WTF - What the *uck
WTR - Want to Rent
WTS - Want To Sell
WTT - Want To Trade
XMM - Xiao Mei Mei
XDD - Xiao Di Di
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
Camera Shops:
AP - Alan Photo
CP - Cathay Photo
MS - MS Colour, AMK
TCW - The Camera Workshop
John 3:16 - Nope....not the BIBLE but a shop in Funan Centre, 5th Floor
Camera Accessories Shop:
EG - EastGear
PPCP - Perfect Pixel Camera Parts
SSK - ShaSkinKi.com
Photography-related terms:
AE - Auto Exposure
AEL - Auto Exposure Lock
AF - Auto Focus
APAD - A Photo A Day
AS - Anti-Shake (Konica Minolta term)
Av - Aperture Priority (Canon) (A for Nikon)
AWB - Auto White Balance
AWL - Advanced Wireless Lighting (Nikon term)
CA - Chromatic Abberrations
CCD - Charged Coupled Device (Sensor)
CLS - Creative Lighting System (Nikon term)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (Sensor)
C. Fn. - Custom Function (Canon, not sure of other brands)
DO - Diffractive Optics (lens element) (Canon)
DOF - Depth of Field
DSLR - Digital Single Lens Reflex (camera)
EV - Exposure
FE - Fish-eye (lens)
FEL - Flash Exposure Lock (Canon)
HDR - High Dynamic Range
HSM - Hyper Sonic Motor (Sigma)
IF - Internal Focusing
IQ - Image Quality
IS - Image Stabilizer (Canon)
LF - Large Format
LR - Adobe LightRoom
LV - Live View
MF - Medium Format OR Manual Focus
OIS - Optical Image Stabilizer (Panasonic term)
OOF - Out of Focus
OS - Optical Stabiliser (Sigma) OR Operating System (Computer term)
PP - Post Process
PS - Photoshop
PS CS - PhotoShop Creative Suite (this is usually joined)
RF - Rangefinder (camera)
SLR - Single Lens Reflex (camera)
SSS - Super Steady Shot (Sony term)
SSWF - Supersonic Wave Filter (Olympus term)
SWD - Supersonic Wave Drive (Olympus term)
SWM - Silent Wave Motor (Nikon Term)
Sync - Synchro
TFCD - Time For CD
TFP - Time For Prints
TTL Through the lens (A mode for flash)
Tv - Shutter Priority (Canon) (S for Nikon)
UD - Ultra-low Dispersion (lens element) (Canon)
USM - Ultrasonic Motor (not Unsharp Mask, as originally posted)(Canon term)
VR - Vibration Reduction (Nikon term)
WA - Wide Angle
WB - White Balance
File types / Images terms:
BMP - BIT MAP
DNG - Adobe Digital Negative
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
JPEG/JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
NEF - Nikon Electronic Format (Nikon's RAW format)
ORF - Olympus RAW format
PEF - Pentax RAW format
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PSD - Photoshop file
TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
"Nicknames" or alternative names:
Bokeh - Blur background
PRATA - Reflector
Strobes - usually artificial light ....e.g. studio lights
Tupperware - Lightsphere
upz - To bring up your/someone's thread to the top of the page.
Special Terms(Nikonians' idols):
KRW - The Venerable Ken Rockwell
*** - The Venerable Ken Rockwell
GF - Gary Fong(inventor of the LightSphere, The LightSphere II, The LightSphere Photojournalist II)
GFLS - Gary Fong LightSphere/II/PJII
RG - Rob Galbraith
Places:
SLS - Sim Lim Square
JBP - Jurong Bird Park
SBG (or BG) - Singapore Botanical Gardens
MOG - Mandai Orchid Garden
