Optics
The quality of the background blur of a lens.
What is Bokeh?
The historical two largest producers of photographic film
What are Fujifilm and Eastman Kodak?
The common name of an on-camera hot shoe external flash
What is a speedlight?
The full name of the most common digital sensor architecture in the modern era, commonly contracted to CMOS.
What is a Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor?
Who is Bryan Adams?
A specific type of lens which retains focus on a subject as it zooms in or out
What is a parfocal lens?
A technique used to develop film over its stated ISO by intentionally underexposing the film and then extending the duration of development
What is Pushing?
A lighting measurement value which measures how accurately the light renders colors compared to sunlight
What is Color Rendering Index (CRI)?
An optical coating which sits on top of the sensor and prevents images from rendering foliage and other objects as bright pink instead of green
What is an IR-Cut filter?
A photographer who took their most famous photo on Kodachrome film using a Nikon 105mm f2.5 lens
Who is Steve McCurry?
A type of lens element which is specifically machined in an irregular shape to combat lens defects
What is an Aspherical element?
An effect caused by removing remjet (carbon backing layer) from cinema film that appears as red glowing highlights around sources of light
What is halation?
A physical quality which Canon and other photographic manufacturers improved by painting their largest telephoto lenses white
What is Heat Dispersion?
A sensor property which causes different ISO values in a range to possess a similar amount of noise generated when standardized to a common exposure in post-processing
What is ISO Invariance?
The world's most famous combat photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos
Who is Robert Capa?
What is a Double Gauss?
Kodak's most popular black and white film developer historically, which comes in a powdered form
What is Kodak D-76?
A chemical compound which is the main component in the earliest Through-The-Lens (TTL) light meters
What is Cadmium Sulfide?
The ratio at which a camera's sensor can successfully convert an incoming photon into a singular electron
What is Quantum Efficiency?
A street photographer famous for their intrusive black-and-white flash shots on a Leica camera
Who is Bruce Gilden?
A lens defect caused by spherical aberration focusing wavelengths of light unevenly across the frame, resulting in purple and green fringing
What is Spherochromatism?
A graph which all film possesses which shows how dense a certain brand of film becomes when exposed to different colors of the same brightness
What is a Spectral Dye-Density Curve?
A method to mount a lens to a camera body by physically compressing the lens to the body using a rotating ring
What is a Breech-lock?
Image noise that is directly caused by thermal generation, which grows as exposure time increases
What is Dark Current?
A well-respected member of Ansel Adams' Group f/64, most known for their botanical photography
Who is Imogen Cunningham?