Wissenstest: Photography

The colour information in a digital photograph is made up of pixels of red, green and blue. These pixels have colour depth measured in bits. What does bit stand for?

• Blue integrated
• Binary digital
• Black Digit
• Binary digit

Digital cameras have a CCD chip instead of film. What does the abreviation CCD stand for?

• Clear Coupled Device
• Cheap Calculating Device
• Charge Coupled Device
• Cold Charging Device

Who was the founder of the photographic film and camera company Kodak?

• George W. Westman
• George W. Eastman
• George W. Northman
• George W. Southman

Filters are often used in photography. If you wanted to darken the sky, and increase the contrast between sky and clouds which filter would you use?

• Haze filter
• UV filter
• Red filter
• Polarizing filter

On the 23rd of January 2004 a famous photographer was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles. Who was it?

• Helmut Newton
• Mike Newton
• Isaac Newton
• Henry Newton

Who was said to have taken the first photograph ever?

• Michelangelo
• Charles Darwin
• Joseph Nièpce
• Robert Bosch

Digital cameras often have a small television screen attached. What kind of monitor is it?

• LDC
• CDL
• TVL
• LCD

What was the first successfull 35mm camera called?

• Hasselblad
• Nikon
• Leica
• Rollei

In 1947 four photographers founded a photographic cooperative. What was it called?

• Associated Press
• Masdum
• Magnum
• Reuters

Which photographer coined the phrase "the decisive moment"?

• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Edward Steichen
• Paul Strand
• W. Eugene Smith