| NTSC | National Television Systems Committee The color television system used in the USA, Canada, and Japan. |
| Nose room | The space in front, and in the direction, of moving or stationary subjects. |
| Normal Lens | A lens where the angle of view approximately represents that of the human eye |
| Nonlinear editing | Computerised editing where images are then stored on the hard drive |
| Non-destructive editing | An editing approach that doesn’t alter the original pixels in a photo throughout the enhancement process. Typically used for Raw processing or in techniques that make use of Smart Object technology |
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