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B-4 Glossary
PCMCIA card. “Standard,” removable credit-card sized cards that meet
the Personal Computer Memory Card International Associa-
tion standard, that are used with the camera for image
storage.
Photoshop driver. The software provided by Kodak as part of the camera
that allows you to access the camera from your Macintosh
computer. It also allows you to acquire images, to set
camera defaults, to test the camera, to update the camera, to
manage images you may have moved or copied to your
computer hard disk, and so on. Another driver, the “TWAIN
driver” provides similar access on the PC platform (including
access to the PC version of Photoshop).
Plug-in. Another name for the driver software.
See also
Driver.
Preview. A single, large representation of one image that appears in
the image area of the driver image window. Previews can be
viewed in a variety of sizes.
Self-test. A feature of the driver that allows you to perform a diagnos-
tic self-test of the camera.
Thumbnails. Small representations of images — in a variety of sizes —
that appear in the driver image window. A thumbnail is a
subsample of the data in the full image.
TWAIN. A set of written specifications developed by a consortium of
vendors, that when implemented in software allows you to
acquire data from a peripheral (such as a digital camera or
film scanner) directly into your software application (such as
an image-editing software) without leaving the application.