User talk:Sbb/Glossary of photography terms

Original preferred styles
For the purposes of style debates (MOS:RETAIN, MOS:STYLERET), the following are hopefully clear choices for the style of this article:

&emsp;—&#8239;sbb&#8239;(talk) 08:08, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * MOS:STYLERET, MOS:ENGVAR – The body text of this glossary uses American English. However, if a specific term is clearly most frequently spelled with a British variant, it should be used that way. Based on my unscientific sampling, most photographic terms I see referenced on the internet use American English (such as polarizer, diopter, etc.). Color vs. colour, gray vs. grey, are equally used, and therefore arbitrary. Thus, the body text uses American English. Definition terms should identify and anchor both variants as much as possible, and should be marked-up with en-US and en-GB as appropriate. Don't markup a term definition with en-US if there isn't a corresponding British English spelling term.
 * MOS:DATERET, MOS:DATEUNIFY – Dates should Use dmy dates format (dd Mmm YYYY). Yes, this is not typically American date format. But MDY date format is dumb. As always, ISO-8601 date formats (YYYY-MM-DD) can be used in  templates. Speaking of...
 * MOS:CITEVAR, Citation style – Citation Style 1.
 * Inline references – Prefer harvnb/harvc or sfn. Inline cite for singleton references.
 * Year disambiguation for multi-volume references – For example, Willard Morgan's Encyclopedia of Photography is 20 volumes, published (and republished) over multiple years. So regardless of the year of the reference, I've been giving a letter corresponding to the volume ('a' through 't') to the date parameter. That way, if one citation finds volume 15 in 1964 and another citation finds volume 15 published in 1968 (hypothetically), they would each be cited as and, even though [a–n] weren't necessarily used for "Morgan" references those years. It just seems to make it easier to reference multi-volumes-over-multiple-years works like that.
 * Values / units – as much as possible, prefer using val for numbers with associated units. I.e., "35 mm" -> ; -> $100 mm$. For inch-dimensions, such as 1" sensor or 8" × 10", use  ($1 in$) and  ($8 in$).
 * Special characters
 * Aperture – use f/ for f-numbers. ->.
 * Times – use &times; instead of x for times: 4&times;, not 4x