CMT 11 Photography terms assignment

CMT 11 Photography terms assignment

1. Aperture -  is a hole or an opening through which light enters a camera.
2. Dept of field -  The distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that gives an image judged to be in focus in a camera.
3.  Darkroom - A room from which normal light is excluded, used for developing photographs.
4. Developer -  A chemical used to render visible the image recorded on a photosensitive surface.
5.  Enlargement - photographic reproduction or a copy larger than the original print or negative.
6. F-stop - Standard unit of exposure. A means of expressing the illuminating power of a lens regardless of its focal length.
7.  Fixer - A chemical preservative used to fix a photographic image.
8. ISO - a measure of a films speed or light sensitivity. 
9. Panning - the rotation in a horizontal plane of a still camera or video camera.
10.  Single – lens reflex camera (SLR) - Helps the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured.
11. Stop bath - is a chemical bath usually used in processing traditional black-and-white photographic films.
12. Telephoto lens - is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length.
13. View camera -is a type of camera first developed in the era of the daguerreotype (1840s-'50s) and still in use today, though with many refinements.
14. View finder camera- is what the photographer looks through to compose, and in many cases to focus to take a picture.
15.  Zoom lens - is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length can be varied.
16. Continuous tone photography - is one where each color at any point in the image is reproduced as a single tone.
17. Lens - an optical device which transmits and refracts light, converging the beam.
18. Wide angle lens - This type of lens allows more of the scene to be included in the photograph.
19. Shutter - is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film .

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