TWENTY FOUR PHOTOGRAPHY QUESTIONS: Answers
These are the answers to the following quiz: 24 photography questions to test you:
1) Around 400 BC by Aristotle
2) Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke and/or Imogen Cunningham
3) Increase the development time by 183%. Ideal development would be 16 minutes at 20 degrees Celsius in Micropen
4) 1935
5) Trick question, you wouldn’t. The lens in use should have no effect on exposure. (Camera shake, etc., is another, separate matter)
6) 355mm
7) Methods of improving print tonality
8) 2 1/4 stops difference
9) Green
10) Photographing the sun
11) 360 degrees
12) 1893
13) A measure of print contrast
14) An undeveloped picture (in print or film)
15) Ricoh XR-S
16) A photometric unit of luminous intensity
17) True
18) The film emulsion (or sensor on digital cameras) for a correctly focused image. It is where the image comes to rest
19) Yellow light. White minus blue leaves red and green, creating yellow
20) 1861 by James Maxwell
21) The degree of refraction of light – the dispersion of light.
22) Blue
23) 1/15 (or 1/8) because British televisions use a 625 line per second system which forms a complete image every 1/25 second, therefore you need a shutter speed slower than this.
24) 1/1000
