100 multiple choice photography questions : Answers
Multiple choice photography quiz: Answers
ANSWERS: Part 1, 1-20
1: (c) fibre based prints
2: (a) cyan
3: (c) both
4: (b) 3D slides
5: (b) 1907
6: (a) without borders
7: (c) 4000 and 7000 Angstrom
8: (a) 400 BC
9: (c) 8″ x 10″ enlargers
10: (a) 1 second or more
11: (a) an artists aid
12: (b) the cones
13: (c) black
14: (a) 1826
15: (b) 1935
16: (a) a heavy tripod
17: (b) Hasselbrad 500EL (HEC)
18: (c) intensity
19: (a) 1861
20: (c) blue
ANSWERS: Part 2, 21-40
21: (a) magnesium fluoride
22: (b) room
23: (a) 1840
24: (a) 1877
25: (a) falls on the subject
26: (c) Sir John Herschel
27: (b) light writing
28: (a) a particle of light energy
29: (b) subtractive
30: (c) 32 seconds
31: (c) both
32: (b) 1925
33: (a) a slide projector
34: (a) under exposure and under development
35: (a) extreme tone separation
36: (c) Magnum
37: (b) Ricoh XR-S
38: (a) old paper
39: (b) a light and shade effect
40: (b) 100 degrees centigrade
ANSWERS: Part 3, 41-60
41: (a) Fox Talbot
42: (a) photomicrography
43: (c) light scattering in a condenser enlarger
44: (b) lens coatings
45: (c) 5400 K
46: (a) mirror lens
47: (b) back lighting
48: (b) alkaline
49: (c) light meters
50: (a) 27
51: (a) computer flashguns
52: (b) used in focusing screens
53: (a) red and blue light
54: (a) all light
55: (b) producing a sharp subject against a blurred background
56: (c) 360 degrees
57: (b) viewing and taking lenses being separate
58: (a) true
59: (a) partial reversal of image tones
60: (b) a measure of an images edge sharpness
ANSWERS: Part 4, 61-80
61: (a) 180 degrees
62: (a) a method of producing a reversed image
63: (c) the sun
64: (c) a projector lens
65: (b) Ansel Adams
66: (a) 1946
67: (b) 1924
68: (a) true
69: (b) 160%
70: (c) joiner pictures
71: (c) closer than they really are
72: (a) a blue cast
73: (b) a lens shade
74: (b) true
75: (c) 1893
76: (b) cyan and magenta
77: (c) both
78: (b) f4 and 1/250
79: (a) the power output of a flash
80: (a) true
ANSWERS: Part 5, 81-100
81: (a) oxidation
82: (c) scratches on the glass
83: (c) 355mm
84: (b) for time-lapse photography
85: (a) a remote flash trigger
86: (a) 20.3 x 25.4cm
87: (c) a slide viewer
88: (b) 1600 ASA
89: (c) under exposure
90: (b) darkrooms
91: (a) film
92: (c) flashguns
93: (a) 1:1
94: (c) true
95: (b) photojournalists
96: (c) Pisces
97: (b) darkroom work
98: (a) Tamron
99: (c) both
100: (b) 6 different formats
Background
I originally wrote this quiz for Practical Photography Magazine, back in 1984 🙂
References, bibliography and ideas:
Books:
Advanced Photography by John Hedgecoe
35mm Handbook by Micheal Freeman
Complete encyclopaedia of Photography by Micheal Langford
Complete guide to camera accessories by Robb Smith
Magazines (circa 1980 to 1984):
Practical Photography
Camera Weekly
35mm Photography
SLR Camera
Amateur Photographer
Other:
Personal experience
Also had input from some of my mentors at the time* including:
John Wade, Brian Durrant, and Viktor Black
*(I was doing a course in freelance photography and photo-journalism)
