1: To prove that photography was indeed an art, and not just a craft, photographers at first imitated the painting of the time.
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2: The 35-mm camera by Oskar Barnack of the Ernst Leitz company was also known as the "candid" camera.
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3: Photography has been used to document many important historical events including World War II and the Great Depression.
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4: One of the advantages of digital photography is that images created cannot be
manipulated or changed and will be saved permanently in an inalterable state.
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5: A photogram, created as a sketching device for artists, consisted of a small, lightproof box with a pinhole or lens on one side and a translucent screen on the opposite side.
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6: Sir John Herschel discovered in 1819 that hyposulfite of soda was suitable as a fixing agent for sensitized paper images.
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7: The daguerreotype was reproducible and could be used to produce images intended for mass distribution.
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8: The calotype's paper negative made possible the reproduction of photographic images.
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9: The Calotype Method, also known as the "wet plate" technique, involved coating a glass plate with silver iodide in suspension, exposing it while still wet, and developing it immediately.
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False
10: By the last quarter of the 19th cent. most households could boast respectable photographic collections. These were in three main forms: the family album, scrapbooks, and boxes of stereoscope cards.
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False
11: George Eastman's first camera, which he called the "Kodak," was first offered for sale in 1888.
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12: George Eastman developed the Brownie, a simple and very inexpensive box camera that introduced the concept of the snapshot.
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13: The Polaroid Model 95 was the world's first viable instant-picture camera.
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14: The first fully practical color film, Autochrome, did not reach the market until 1907.
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15: Black and white film is made up of a chemical mixture protected by a thin plastic layer. This chemical mixture is called a blend.
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16: Energy from the sun comes to the Earth in visible and invisible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Human eyes are sensitive to a large portion of that spectrum that includes visible and some invisible colors.
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17: Advertising photography, photojournalism, editorial photography, and fine art photography are all considered types of commercial photography.
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18: Color depth is the overall accuracy with which the colors in the photograph match or are capable of matching those in the original scene.
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False
19: A bitmap is a card containing chips that store images.
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20: Pixelization is an effect seen when you enlarge a digital image too much making the pixels more noticeable.
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False
21: Natural light generally refers to daylight and artificial light is illumination produced by man.
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22: Sidelighting occurs when the main source of illumination is behind the subject, shining in the direction of the camera.
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False
23: The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) was founded in 1946 in the U.S., and has approximately 10,000 members.
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False
24: Street photography is also known as "Straight Photography," implying it is the pure vision of something that was, like holding up a mirror to society.
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False
25: An aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted.
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26: A device called a lens usually serves as the aperture stop, and controls the aperture.
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27: A light source's color temperature is determined by comparing its hue with a theoretical, heated black-body radiator.
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28: The depth of field (DOF) is the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus.
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29: Larger cameras have deeper depth of field than smaller cameras.
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30: Filters on a camera lens, or color gels over the light source(s) can be used to correct color balance.
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False
2007-11-09
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