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How many exposures can a standard full-length roll of 35mm film hold?
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When did Sony unveil "Mavica", the first consumer camera to use a charge-coupled device for imaging?
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What is the most popular size of film?
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4.
Which style of commercial photography deals with illustrating a service or product?
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Advertising Photography
5.
The available light completely surrounding a photographed subject is known as what?
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6.
What is the common name for a device used to take pictures?
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7.
Pictures taken without the subject's knowledge are known as what?
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8.
Photography is made up of two processes which make taking pictures possible, optical and what?
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9.
Which kind of camera takes pictures that can be printed from a computer?
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10.
What type of photography illustrates a story or idea, usually within the context of a magazine?
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Editorial Photography
11.
Who was the wife of Victor Hasselblad, the man who founded the Hasselblad camera company?
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12.
Which type of photography incorporates live models to emphasize clothing or other related products?
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Fashion Photography
13.
What is a colored glass used to emphasize, eliminate or change color or density in a photo called?
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14.
What is the process for making sure a picture turns out clearly?
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15.
Which Japanese company's film comes in a distinctive green box?
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16.
A lens shade is a collar or hood that keeps unwanted light from striking the lens and causing what?
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17.
Which style of photography involves location scenes printed as postcards?
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Landscape Photography
18.
What gives people "red eyes" in some photographs?
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Light Reflecting Off The Retinas
19.
In photography, a telephoto lens is used for what special purpose?
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Long Distance Shots
20.
Which chemical, also used in thermometers, was involved in early photo development?
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21.
The developed film that contains a reversed tone image of the original scene is referred to as what?
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22.
Which Japanese film company takes its name from the mythological home of the Greek gods?
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23.
A monochrome photograph uses variations on how many colors?
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24.
Moving the camera so that a moving object stays in the same relative viewfinder position is called?
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25.
What photography style, a subset of editorial photography, is used in documentation of news stories?
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26.
What does the term "pixel" stand for?
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27.
Which photography style makes and sells photographs to the end user of the images?
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Portrait Photography
28.
What made up the first photo-sensitive compound, invented accidentally in 1727?
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Silver, Nitric Acid, Chalk
29.
What is the name of the lens that makes a subject appear larger on film?
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30.
A joint venture of Kodak and FujiFilm, the first disposable camera was invented when?
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31.
What is the name of a three-legged camera stand?
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32.
On a camera, what is the name of the hole you look through to compose a picture?
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33.
What word describes a camera's focusing in on far-away objects?
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34.
Jacob Riis, author of "How the Other Half Lives", took photos depicting life in/on New York what?
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Apartment Buildings
35.
In photographic prints, the ratio of width to height is referred to as what?
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36.
When was the first permanent photographic image produced by the French inventor Nicephore Niepce?
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37.
In what year was the first permanent color photograph taken by physicist James Clerk Maxwell?
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38.
In which year did Kodak announce it would no longer produce reloadable 35mm cameras?
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39.
What are the dimensions of the standard image format of 35mm film?
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40.
In photography, a shot that depicts a broad scene is typically referred to as what?
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41.
In photography, what does "APS" stand for?
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Advanced Photo System
42.
Which artist took three pictures of Abraham Lincoln during his Presidential campaign in 1861?
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43.
What award-winning photographer is best known for her unique pictures of babies?
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44.
What American photographer took black and white photos of the Yosemite Valley in California?
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45.
What famous photographer dropped out of school at the age of 12 to educate himself?
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46.
Whose book influenced the U.S. government to create the Kings Canyon National Park in 1940?
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Ansel Easton Adams
47.
What setting is expressed by an f-number or f-stop, derived from focal ratio?
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48.
What is the system by which the camera lens clarifies the image of a selected part?
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49.
What do you call taking photos of bullets either leaving a gun or piercing a target?
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Ballistic Photography
50.
What is the folding portion in some cameras that connects the lens to the camera body?
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51.
In photography, the red-eye effect is most common with what eye color?
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52.
What is taking pictures through a range of exposures when unsure of the correct exposure called?
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53.
Macro photography refers to what type of photography?
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Close-Up Photography
54.
What is the term used to describe printing only part of an image that is in the negative or slide?
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55.
In photography, what can lead to multiple images showing up on one picture?
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56.
The word "photography" comes from the Greek words "phos" and "graphis", which has what meaning?
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Drawing With Light
57.
In the 1980's, camera film rolls were marked with what to automatically set film sensitivity value?
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58.
In 1888, the Hasselblad Company formed a partnership with which camera maker?
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59.
Which famous artist photographed things in nature, for example, milkweeds and roses?
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Edwin Hale Lincoln
60.
When Joseph Nicephore Niepce produced the first picture in 1827, how much exposure did it require?
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61.
In photography, what is the technical name for all natural lighting, from moonlight to sunshine?
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62.
Why does film need to be developed in a darkroom?
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Exposing Film To Light Ruins It
63.
What is the term used to describe the total amount of light reaching the film?
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64.
Which lenses, originally developed for meteorology and astronomy, have become popular in photography?
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65.
Which French photographer founded "Magnum Photos"?
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
66.
Which photographer's pictures of California migrant workers were used in the film "Grapes of Wrath"?
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67.
In photography, "push" processing does what to the film's speed?
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68.
Which physicist took the first permanent color photograph in 1861?
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James Clerk Maxwell
69.
The term "camera obscura" is from which ancient language?
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70.
What is the adjustment of the iris which controls the amount of light entering a camera lens called?
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71.
The word "photography" comes from the Greek words meaning what?
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Light And Drawing
72.
Before they were developed on paper, photos were developed on plates of what?
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73.
What controls the exposure at a midtone so that highlights and shadows are exposed properly?
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74.
Who made the first SLR camera with integrated motorized autofocus and film advance winder in 1985?
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75.
35mm photography film originally came from what type of film?
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Motion Picture Film
76.
Which photography style aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view?
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Panoramic Photography
77.
What is the apparent shift of an object against a background due to a change in observer position?
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78.
Most of Annie Leibovitz's photographs contain what?
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79.
What type of photography uses cameras attached to the eyepiece of microscopes?
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80.
In 1963 the first color instant film was produced by which company?
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81.
When taking a picture with a digital camera, you can ensure it is well focused by doing what?
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Pressing The Shutter Halfway First
82.
In the abbreviation "SLR", what does the "R" stand for?
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83.
What is photographic shutter speed measured in?
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84.
What type of metal is used to produce a daguerreotype photograph?
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85.
A camera that has few or no adjustments to be made by the picture-taker is generally called a what?
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What feature of a camera eliminates parallax error?
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Single Lens Reflex
87.
On an overcast day, a photographer is likely to encounter what kind of lighting?
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88.
In photography, what word refers to film's sensitivity to light?
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89.
The first autofocus camera was marketed in what decade?
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90.
The first commercial color film, invented by the French Lumiere brothers in 1907, was called?
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Autochrome Plates
91.
What is the compensation for the color temperature associated with a given set of lighting conditions?
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92.
Which lens has a focal length that is substantially shorter than the focal length of a normal lens?
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Who created the first photograph on paper of a human figure in 1840?
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William Henry Fox Talbot
94.
The word "photography" is derived from words in Greek which mean "light" and what else?
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95.
Which company makes the "Vario Tessar" line of camera lenses?
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96.
In which year was the photography company of F.W. Hasselblad & Co. first founded?
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97.
When was the first Kodak camera, which had a 20-foot long roll of paper inside, made?
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98.
Kodak introduced the Brownie box roll-film camera in what year?
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In what year was 35mm film for photography introduced?
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Upon what in the imaging frame will a camera's auto-focus system attempt to focus?
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