This black and white film type is highly blue sensitive and not at all sensitive to red light.
What is orthochromatic film?
100
First introduced in 1893, this fashionable, young, vibrant and independent woman often appeared in ads in a distinctive blue and white striped dress.
Who is the Kodak Girl?
100
In 1862 this French scientist wrote a paper outlining the basic principles for three colour photography.
Who is Louis Ducos du Hauron?
100
Introduced by the Joint Photographic Experts Group in 1987 this digital file uses this type of compression.
What is lossy?
100
This preservation issue is created when silver-gelatin papers have not been properly washed and traces of sodium thiosulfate remain in the photograph.
What is sulfiding?
200
This black & white film is sensitive to all colours of the visible spectrum.
What is panchromatic film?
200
These fictitious little men appeared only at night to perform good and helpful deeds or enjoy harmless pranks while weary households slept also inspired the name of this famous amateur camera.
What is the Brownie?
200
Also credited with the invention of cinema, the Lumiere brothers introduced this first commercially viable colour photographic process in 1907.
What is the Autochrome?
200
EXIF, IPTC and Dublin Core are structures for maintaining this type of digital information.
What is metadata?
200
This type of film decay is caused when the acetate base begins to break down and shrink.
What is vinegar syndrome?
300
This film base was discontinued by manufacturers in 1950 due to it's highly flammable character.
What is nitrate film?
300
This compact folding camera was marketed as the "Soldier's Camera" during WWI and was largely responsible for the first photographic documentation of day-to-day life on the front lines by infantrymen.
What is the Kodak Vest Pocket Camera?
300
Used in colour offset printing these four colours are printed in register to produce a full colour image.
What are cyan, magenta, yellow and black?
300
When scanning a photograph you must determine these two factors which affect both image size and quality.
What are resolution and bit-depth?
300
These kinds of silver gelatin photographs are the only ones that fade in the dark.
What are chromogenic colour prints?
400
Developed by Kodak and manufactured with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) this film base was first introduced in 1995 but became increasingly popular for a variety of uses due to it's strength, flexibility and stability.
What is ESTAR?
400
This company marketed the 1960's version of their newest camera in a TV add show actress Ali McGraw producing a final photography in under 60 seconds.
What is the Polaroid Swinger?
400
This colour system uses red, green and blue light to produce a full colour image
What is additive colour?
400
In 1969, Smith & Boyle invented this ground breaking device at the Bell Research Labs in New Jersey.
What is the charge-coupled device?
400
Most conservators recommend this combination of temperature and relative humidity in a museum environment.
What is 68 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit and 40 to 60% RH?
500
Introduced with Eastman's Kodak Camera in 1888 this film type was manufactured with transparent celluloid that had a paper backing which was removed during development.
What is American Stripping Film?
500
This Kodak negative — named for the original model, who was an employee of the company — was used by colour photo labs to calibrate skin tones, shadows and light during the printing process.
What is a Shirley?
500
In 1936 it was this company that discovered a way to incorporate the complex dye-coupler into a new film called, "Neu"
What is Agfa?
500
In 2012 this international organization withdrew it's "Photo of the Year Award" originally give to Swedish photographer Paul Hansen because they decided his image of a Palestinian funeral procession was "excessively enhanced" by image editing software.
What is World Press Photo?
500
This type of archival museum board is not recommended for albumen, dye-transfer and cyanotype prints.