Equivalent Exposures
Sensor Types
Noise Performance
Image file formats
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100
Subtract 4 stops from 1/60th 

1/1000

100

True or false. Photosites are colorblind

True

100
What does ISO stand for?

International Standards Organization 

100

What does TIFF stand for?

Tagged Image File Format 

100

Calculate crop factor of a sensor with a 35mm diagonal

1.2 

200

100    1/60    F/16 

I am shooting a completely still landscape at night and my exposure comes out too dark. Which setting should I adjust if I want my image to look the exact same in my next image. 

Shutter speed 

200

Which image sensor will not need interpolation?

Foveon 

200

What is the difference between grain and noise?

grain is for film and results from the texture of silver halides. 

Noise is for digital cameras and is random brightness variances produced by electronics or environment. 

200

How many tones are in the standard JPEG

8 bits = 256 tones

200

You find an unlabeled neutral density filter in your photo bag. You find its density is 0.5. How many stops will this alter your exposure? 

Be exact with 2 #'s after the decimal point. 

subtracts 1.66 

300

find the equivalent exposure 

400.  1/30.   f/11 

200.  1/125. ____

f/4

300

Which image sensor type needs an IR blocking filter and is susceptible to blooming?

CCD

300

name and define the 3 types of noise. 

photon, transfer process, and thermal 

300

Name 3 advantages of converting raws to DNG

DNG is a legacy format, is widely compatible, has no sidecar, openly sourced, can be smaller than raw.  


300

List the f/#'s from f/2.8-f/22

2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22

400

You are using ETTR. Use shutter speed to adjust the following exposure 2 stops accordingly. 

100.  1/250.   f/11

100.  1/60.   f/11

400

What sensor type is most commonly used in pro DSLRs

CMOS

400

On a photojournalism assignment you will be shooting a low lit night club event. There are only two full frame cameras left at the cage. All you know is Camera 1 has 32 megapixels and Camera 2 has 60 megapixels. 

Which do you choose? Why?

Camera 1 

Considering both sensors are the same size (critical) camera 1's lower megapixel count allows more room to make pixels bigger, therefore able to capture more light and have better noise performance. 

400

Explain the difference between a bitmap and a vector 

vector is mathematical concept and infinitely scaleable not used for photos 

bitmap is defined by pixels has set resolution and is used for photos 

400

list shutter speeds from 1/8 - 1/250

1/8, 1/15, 1/30,1/60, 1/125, 1/250

500

You find the following proper exposure 100.  1/60.  f/22

You THEN apply a 0.6 ND filter to get motion blur in a waterfall 

What would the resulting equivalent exposure be? 

100.  1/15.   f/22

500

What image sensor format was created as the equivalent to 35mm film?

full frame 

500

Image 1 : Mean = 62  Standard Deviation = 15

Image 2 : Mean = 40  Standard Deviation = 3

Which image most likely shot at ISO 100

Image 1 SNR : 12.3

Image 2 SNR : 22.5

Answer : Image 2

500

name the 4 types of compression artifacts and a rough informal definition or description of each. 

Posterization - gradual tones reduced to fewer tones.

Aliasing - artificial patterns from under sampling

Blocking - visible blocks of averaged color

Stair stepping - smooth curves turn to steps 


500

The diameter of my aperture is 200mm and my focal length is 300mm. What is my f/#?

f/1.5

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