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This set of Digital Photography Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Digital Photography Set 3

Q1 | Sky appears to be blue because of:
  • radiation of light over dust particles
  • reflection of light over dust particles
  • refraction of light over dust particles
  • scattering of light over dust particles
Q2 | Candle power is:
  • the luminous flux emitted by the source per unit solid angle
  • the part of the light energy radiated by the sun that is received by earth
  • measured in lux
  • none of the above
Q3 | An object which appears to be red to the eyes absorbs:
  • blue radiation
  • violet radiation
  • green radiation
  • absorbs all the above radiation
Q4 | . Which of the following colour has the wavelength between blue and yellow:
  • violet
  • orange
  • red
  • green
Q5 | Which of the materials is most commonly used for the filaments in the incandescentlamps:
  • tungsten
  • tin
  • silver
  • asbestos
Q6 | The expected life of an incandescent lamp is about:
  • 100 hours
  • 200 hours
  • 500 hours
  • 1000 hours
Q7 | ‘Camera’ is actually a Latin word meaning
  • picture box
  • room
  • light box
  • none of the above
Q8 | The world’s first photographic portrait studio was opened in
  • 1840
  • 1850
  • 1860
  • 1870
Q9 | The world’s first all electric photographic studio was opened in
  • 1877
  • 1897
  • 1917
  • 1887
Q10 | Incident light
  • falls on the subject
  • is reflected from the subject
  • backlights the subject
  • none of these
Q11 | Who coined the term ‘photography’?
  • fox talbot
  • nicephore niepce
  • sir john herschel
  • none of these
Q12 | What is a photon?
  • a particle of light energy
  • a measure of light energy
  • a stream of light energy
  • none of these
Q13 | What type of development process does Kodachrome need?
  • additive
  • subtractive
  • dye replacement
  • none of these
Q14 | Your print needs 8 seconds at f5.6 (in a diffuser enlarger). You decide to use f11, what isyour new exposure?
  • 16 seconds
  • 24 seconds
  • 32 seconds
  • none of these
Q15 | What was Roger Fenton famous for?
  • war photography
  • founding the royal photographic society?
  • both
  • none of these
Q16 | When was the first proper flashbulb invented?
  • 1920
  • 1925
  • 1930
  • none of these
Q17 | What is a ‘magic lantern’?
  • a slide projector
  • an early enlarger
  • a flashbulb
  • none of these
Q18 | Your negative is very weak with very little shadow detail. Why?
  • under exposure and under development
  • under exposure and over development
  • over exposure and over development
  • none of these
Q19 | What is ‘posterization’?
  • extreme tone separation
  • partial image reversal
  • total image reversal
  • none of these
Q20 | David Seyour was the founder of which group?
  • f64
  • societe heliographique
  • magnum
  • none of these
Q21 | Which camera (from around 1984) used solar energy to assist the batteries?
  • nikon fa
  • ricoh xr-s
  • pentax lx
  • none of these
Q22 | Your black and white print has mottled tones despite full development. Why?
  • old paper
  • contaminated stop bath
  • exhausted fixer
  • none of these
Q23 | What is ‘chiaroscuro’?
  • a lens aberration
  • a light and shade effect
  • warped negative film
  • none of these
Q24 | What temperature should colour film be developed at?
  • 95 degrees celsius
  • 100 degrees celsius
  • 105 degrees celsius
  • none of these
Q25 | Daylight colour film is balanced for light at
  • 3200 k
  • 3400 k
  • 5400 k
  • 3000 k