Science General
Photography Techniques and Equipment
3,075 Questions
Photography techniques cover exposure settings, camera angles, and equipment selection. Topics like macro photography, drone operation, and low light conditions are essential for visual arts and technology sections. Review the fundamental concepts of camera sensors and digital imaging.
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Photography Techniques and Equipment Questions
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Silver bromide, a soft, pale-yellow, water-insoluble salt is well known for its unusual sensitivity to light. This property has allowed silver halides to become the basis of modern photographic materials.
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Polaroid
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Kodak
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Fuji
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Konica
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Polaroid Corporation introduced instant photography in 1948 with their Land Camera, which could develop photographs within minutes. This revolutionary technology allowed users to see their photos immediately after taking them, unlike traditional film that required processing. Kodak, Fuji, and Konica were all photography companies, but they did not introduce instant photography technology.
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to and fro
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up and down
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vibration
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rotation
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none of these
A
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Yes, it is the correct answer. A pinhole camera is composed of two boxes. One of the boxes fits snugly inside the other box and can be slid to and fro.
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Inverted and virtual image
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Erect and real image
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Inverted and real
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Erect and diminished
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Virtual and diminished
C
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Yes, it is the correct answer. One can get an inverted and real image in a pinhole camera. A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box.
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Pinhole is small in pinhole camera.
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Image in pinhole camera is the same colour as the object.
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Image in pinhole camera is virtual.
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Pinhole camera is used for real time viewing.
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C
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This is the correct answer as the statement is false. Image is real in pinhole camera.
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Both b and c
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Both a and c
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Both b and d
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Both a and d
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B
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This is the correct answer. The image is real and inverted.
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Opaque
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Translucent
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Transparent
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Plane mirror
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B
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This is the correct answer. Screen is translucent in pinhole camera.
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Camera is used for taking photo and tap is used for taking water.
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camera
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cinema
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spectroscope
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periscope
B
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Persistence of vision refers to the phenomenon where the human eye retains an image for about 1/16th of a second after it disappears. Cinema exploits this by showing sequential frames at 24 frames per second, creating the illusion of continuous motion.
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Image will be erect and blurred.
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Image will be inverted and sharp.
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Image will be erect and sharp.
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Image will be inverted and blurred.
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Image will be inverted, blurred, but bigger in size than the object.
D
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This is the correct option as if the pinhole in a pinhole camera becomes bigger, the image formed will be inverted and blurred. It is due to the fact that when more than one ray will enter the camera from the given point, it will result in the formation of two or more images overlapping one another. This will result in a blurred image.
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Image is inverted and enlarged.
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Image is inverted and diminished.
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Image is erect and diminished.
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Image is erect and enlarged.
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Image formed is erect and of the same size as the object.
B
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This is the correct option as these are the characteristics of image in a pinhole camera. The image formed is upside down and very small as compared to the object.
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trees during night
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vehicle in sunlight
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sun
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ball during noon
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For the image to be visible, we always require two things. 1. An opaque object 2. Source of light So vehicle in sunlight, sun and ball during noon are all that can be imaged by a pin hole camera but trees during night do not have any source of light so these can not be imaged.
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Black paper
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Cardboard
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Scale
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Rubber
D
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To make a pinhole camera, one needs two cardboard boxes a scale to measure the length to cut out the boxes and a tracing paper which acts as a translucent screen in the camera.
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Silver iodide
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Tincture of iodine
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Magnesium
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Sodium
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Carbon
A
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Silver iodide is used in photography because it darkens when exposed to light.
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Collimating marks
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Principal points
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Plumb point
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Iso centre
B
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On aerial photographs, the '+' symbols are fiducial marks used to locate the principal point of the photograph.