Photography Trivia

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What part of a camera focuses light to form an image?

Answer: Lens

Bonus fact: A camera lens bends and focuses incoming light onto film or an image sensor.

What camera setting controls the size of the opening that lets light through the lens?

Answer: Aperture

Bonus fact: Aperture is expressed using f-numbers such as f/2.8 or f/8.

In photography, increasing the f-number generally makes the lens aperture do what?

Answer: Become smaller

Bonus fact: Higher f-numbers correspond to smaller aperture openings.

A photograph is an image created by recording what?

Answer: Light

Bonus fact: Photography captures light on film or an electronic sensor.

What camera setting controls how long light reaches the sensor or film?

Answer: Shutter speed

Bonus fact: Shutter speed determines exposure time.

What early photographic process introduced in 1839 used a silver-coated copper plate?

Answer: Daguerreotype

Bonus fact: Louis Daguerre's process produced a highly detailed direct-positive image.

Daguerreotype
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