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Parts of the Camera
Digital Photo History
Terminology
Know Your Gear
Photo Potpourri
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This setting, measured in f-stops, helps control how much light enters the camera.
What is the aperture?
100
In 2004, this famous photo company quit making film cameras due to the popularity of digital photography.
What is Kodak?
100
This means "writing with light."
What is photography?
100
Cheaper and smaller, these types of digital cameras are built for average users.
What are Point and Shoot cameras?
100
This three-legged device helps steady a camera during long exposures.
What is a Tripod?
200
This device can open for a short or long time letting light into the camera.
What is the shutter?
200
This software, invented in 1990 by Adobe, is the most popular and widely-used digital imaging program.
What is Photoshop?
200
These three colors, known as RGB, make up all electronic images.
What are Red, Green, and Blue?
200
This term means 'million' and is often used when describing how many pixels a digital camera produces.
What is Mega?
200
Digital photographs are made up of millions of these.
What are Pixels?
300
When needed, this device will emit a quick burst of light when taking a picture.
What is a flash?
300
This small, easy-to-use-camera that originally sold for $1, made photography popular among average citizens beginning in 1900.
What is the Kodak Brownie?
300
It's the smallest, most basic part of a digital image.
What is a pixel?
300
This type of camera has interchangeable lenses, and full manual settings.
What is a DSLR?
300
This company's early slogan was, "You take the picture, we do the rest."
What is Kodak?
400
Located on the very front of the camera, it's what you point at your subject.
What is the lens?
400
This precursor to photography, used a dark room with a hole in the wall to project an upside down image on the opposite wall.
What is a Camera Obscura?
400
The combination of the three settings of ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed are known as this geometric shape
What is the Exposure Triangle?
400
It's the most common file format used in digital photography.
What is JPEG, jpeg, .jpeg, .jpg?
400
This was Vivian Meier's style of photography.
What is Street Photography?
500
This portable device stores photographs created by a digital camera.
What is a memory card?
500
This government agency paved the way for digital photography by inventing digital imaging in the 1960's.
What is NASA?
500
This setting changes the light sensitivity of the image sensor. Too much, and your image will look noisy.
What is ISO?
500
This type of lens or setting allows extreme close-up photography.
What is Macro?
500
Through his black and white landscape photography in Yosemite, he helped form the National Park system.
Who is Ansel Adams?