Intro to Photography and History
A "capture of light", or a word often used by photographers to describe a photograph.
What is an exposure?
The camera setting that can manipulate exposure time, and thus light.
What is shutter speed?
The type of lens you would want for most landscapes or any big expansive shots.
What is a wide-angle lens?
The name of lenses that have a lot of zoom, which are great for wildlife/sports/astro photography.
What are telephoto lenses?
The method for changing the APERTURE on our Nikon D3200 cameras?
What the process of holding down the +/- button while turning the thumb wheel?
The number that measures your DSLR camera's sensitivity to light. Too much of this can cause "noise" or grain in your photo.
What is ISO?
Simpletons call this "zoom," but this factor is one of the most important determining factors in answering why a lens sees the image it does.
What is focal length?
* Mr. B will show a photo. *
The type of lens that was probably used to shoot this photo.
What is a wide-angle lens?
The method for changing the ISO on our Nikon D3200s.
Note: Newer Nikon's require you to go into the menu to change this.
What the process of holding down the FN button while turning the thumb wheel?
What the manual modes stand for: M A S P (hint, I'll tell you P = Program mode)
What is Manual, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Program Mode?
A function that dictates how many times the lens has been "divided," measured in "f-stops."
What is the aperture?
A type of lens that doesn't zoom but usually gives a more crisp image and might be faster.
What is a prime lens?
A good "starting point" for thinking about focal lengths, usually the closest to the type of zoom that your eye sees.
What is a 50mm lens? (although anything between 35mm and 60mm is acceptable here).
The names for the two sensor/lens sizes in Nikon photography.
What is DX (smaller cropped) and FX (larger, 35mm equivalent)
DAILY DOUBLE: Double points on this one! The first "camera" model, which ultimately is very similar to DSLR cameras because of the mirror reflection. This design also helped the invention of telescopes and other scientific breakthroughs.
What is the camera obscura?
This is the best setting to change on your camera if you need more light but your shutter cannot get slower and your aperture cannot open any more.
What is raising the ISO?
Note: Mr. B, pass around the lens! The type of lens this is, and what it might be good for. Describe any distinguishing features on it (prime or zoom, aperture, general type, etc.)
What is a 35mm prime lens that has a manual aperture ring, is FX sized, and opens to f/2.8!
What is a wide angle lens?
The component of the Exposure Triangle that makes a mechanical change in the lens, not the camera body itself.
What is aperture?
The company that pioneered a delivery film printing method who also owned the patent for digital photography, but later would go bankrupt by not investing in digital image technology.
What is Kodak?
This exposure triangle setting affects depth of field.
DAILY DOUBLE: Explain how- when is depth of field shallow?
What is aperture!
A lower aperture = more open lens = more shallow depth of field.
The effect that wide focal lengths have on objects that are closer up.
What is a warping effect? (the subject will look thinned out with the wide lens since it's cramming more perspective into the same image space).
The reason why we refer to lenses with their "speed."
What is the aperture's ability to get the same exposure with a faster or slower shutter speed? (a faster lens allows for a lower aperture, meaning you can take the same exposure with a faster shutter speed. A slower lens requires a lower speed because it's aperture doesn't give as much light!)
This universal camera setting allows you to choose your shutter speed, and the aperture and ISO are automatically determined for optimal exposure.
(The "S" in "M-A-S-P")