CHIMPING YOUR SHOTS

Chimping

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A tourist chimping on his Canon EOS 60D camera in Athens, Greece in October 2013

A photographer in the act of "chimping".

Chimping is a colloquial term used in digital photography to describe the habit of checking every photo on the camera display (LCD) immediately after capture.

Some photographers use the term in a derogatory sense to describe the actions of amateur photographers, but the act of reviewing images on-camera is not necessarily frowned upon by professional or experienced photographers.^[1]

Origin of the term[edit]

The term 'chimping' was first written about by Robert Deutsch, a USA Today staff photographer, in September 1999 when writing a story for the SportsShooter email newsletter. He did not invent the term but heard it passed down by word of mouth.^[2]