Parts of a Camera / Film
Elements of photos
The Darkroom
Photo History
100

This is the part of a camera that allows light through the lens, smaller numbers are large openings, larger numbers are smaller openings.

What is the aperture?

100

This "rule" breaks the frame into various parts for better aiding composition

What is the rule of thirds?

100

This allows you to see in a darkroom, without exposing your photo paper.

What is a safelight or red light?

100

This person created the first usable flexible substrate for photography known as film, and went on to found Kodak in 1892.

Who is George Eastman?

200

This thin material moves at various speeds to expose your film or sensor to light.

What is the shutter?

200

Consisting of the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, this is what determines the exposure of your picture.

What is the exposure triangle?

200

This determines the amount of time that your enlarger light is on.

What is an enlarger timer?

200

This is the country where photography first developed, with the Daguerreotype.

What is France?

300

In a SLR Camera, light from the lens bounces off this part into the viewfinder for you to see. It moves out of the way when you take a picture, usually making a slapping sound.

What is the mirror?

300

This element allows the viewers eye to move through the image usually to focal point

What is a leading line?

300

During print development step, your print becomes desensitized to light.

What is fixing or the fix step?

300

This software was introduced to the public in 1990 as a image manipulation tool for scanned photos.

What is photoshop?

400

This is the light sensitive portion of your film.

What is the emulsion?

400

Using this technique you can create fun and dynamic scenes by changing the viewpoint of which the image is taken

What is perspective?

400

This is what's made when you take a snapshot print of your entire roll in one print.

What is a contact sheet?

400

An engineer at Kodak created the first working self contained digital camera on this year, using data and techniques derived from entities like NASA.

 What is 1975?

500

This component measures the quantity of light of a given subject. Some cameras might have them built in, others require a separate tool.

What is a light meter?

500

An incongruit, sometimes misleading image. Usually sparking the phrase "what is that?".

What is an abstract?

500

This is a common way to determine the proper exposure for print, with repeated exposures while covering parts of the paper.

What are test strips?

500

At the turn of the 1900s this camera was sold for $1 is credited for bringing photography to the masses, and continued production in various models up till 1986

What is the Kodak Brownie?