Technofear

Thinking of buying a reflex digital camera, the obvious way forward is a couple of magazines on the subject, with the expectation that a quick flick through their recommendation pages, reviews and feature round-ups would give me some understanding of what I need to be looking for.

Instant techno-babble.

I have no idea what any of this means, beyond a vague knowledge of a relationship between the number following the acronym ISO and the amount of time that the shutter must be open to get a decent amount of light onto the film (except it's a sensor now, not a film). As soon as they started talking about mounting compatibilities, I decided to give up until I can cross reference with a decent glossary that includes helpful explanations - and doesn't just define one techno-babble word in terms of other techno-babble words.

I presume they are talking about compatibilities between different systems of attaching one thing to another, and not a spiralling increase in compatibility, but until I've studied it, I can't be sure. Google is my friend, let the searching begin...

Edit...

This is the kind of thing I was hoping not to find. The first definition is reasonably good, but waffles a bit. At least it tells me what an "f-number' is, how it's calculated and gives hints as to why and how it may be useful.

The definition of "f-stop" means nothing unless you know what an f-stop is. It does say when it may be useful, but not how or why. I'm kinda hoping these were written by different people.