Photography and Cameras

What this quiz asks

• The camera obscura, ancestor of every camera, takes its name from Latin. What does it mean?
• How many pixels make up one megapixel?
• The word 'photography' comes from Greek words meaning 'drawing with light'.
• Who made the oldest surviving photograph taken with a camera, a view from his window in the 1820s?
• Which composition guideline splits the frame with two horizontal and two vertical lines, placing subjects where they cross?
• Long before electronic flashes, photographers lit dark scenes by setting fire to a powder of which metal?
• Edwin Land, who put instant photography on sale in 1948, founded which company?
• Engineer Steven Sasson built the first self-contained digital camera in 1975 while working for which company?
• Did the exposure for the oldest surviving camera photograph take several hours or longer?
• On a camera lens, which of these f-numbers gives the widest aperture?
• Raising a digital camera's ISO setting lets it shoot in dimmer light, but tends to add grainy noise to the picture.
• Select ALL of these camera makers that were founded in Japan.
• The Kodak Brownie of 1900 made photography affordable for almost everyone. What did it cost in the US?
• George Eastman's first Kodak camera, sold in 1888, came already loaded with film for how many pictures?
• Select ALL of these that change how much light reaches a camera's sensor or film.
• Order these camera sensor and film formats from smallest to largest.
• What big advantage did William Henry Fox Talbot's negative process have over the daguerreotype?
• In what year was Louis Daguerre's photographic process announced and presented to the world?
• The first durable colour photograph, shown by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, pictured what?
• The Lumière brothers' Autochrome, the first commercially successful colour process of 1907, used tiny dyed grains of what?