Assignment 6 Fall 2010

Assignment 6 Fall 2010

South Seattle Community College

ART 170 Photography as an Art Language Randy Nelson
Name:____________________
Fall Quarter 2010

Cameras
Assignment5

I. Bring your camera to class for show and tell on Monday October 25th
II. Your camera:
. Answer the following questions (due Monday November 5th):
1. Make and model of camera:
2. Do you have an instruction manual?
3. Can you find information about your cameras somewhere else?
Where? Be Specific! ("The Internet", for example, is not specific enough)
4. What kind of camera is it? Is it a compact digital ___ a digital SLR_____ a compact 35mm_______ a 35mm SLR_______ or, _____________________ ?

5. What kind of memory cards does it take, and what is the mega pixel rating? Or, what film size does it take?

6. What type of viewing system does it have?

7. Does it allow interchangeable lenses?
8. What is the focal length of the main lens?
9. What is the lens speed? (i.e. largest aperture)
10. What is the smallest aperture?
11. How close can it focus?
12. Can it use filters? What size?
13. What are the shutter speeds?
14. How can you control depth-of-field with this camera?
15. Does it have manual exposure?
16. Does it have auto-focus?
17. What adjustments are there for white balance and different kinds of lighting?
18. Does it have a built-in flash?
19.. If so, how powerful is it?
20. What other special features does it have?
21. Is it noisy when you fire it?
22. Is it a suitable tool for the kind of photography that you want to do?

III. Camera Mathematics Concepts

Select from the following camera settings for the following questions:

f2.8, f4, f5.6, f8, f11, f16, f22; 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000



Which shutter speed is most likely to freeze motion?

Which shutter speed is most likely to blur motion?

Which shutter speed is the slowest recommended shutter speed to hand-hold a camera with a normal lens?

Which aperture provides for the shallowest depth-of-field?

Which aperture provides for the greatest depth-of-field?

Which of the above settings would be the approximate starting BDE settings for

a film with an ISO rating of 100.

B. Math Essay

Describe the units of measurement used for camera shutters, apertures, and sensor or film sensitivity.





C. Perception Essay

1. Question Compare and contrast photographic vision and human vision.

In other words, what are some differences between how cameras typically see and how humans see?



D. Short Answer







1. An important adjustment on digital cameras that affects the color of photographs is called what?

2. What are some lighting situations where it is useful?





2. What is the aspect ratio of most compact digital cameras?





3. What is the aspect ratio of most digital SLRs?





4. Dpi is a measurement that means?







5. Which file format contains the most digital information?

a. JPEG

b. BMP

c. TIFF

d. RAW







6. What is an 18 percent reflectance gray card?



7. On cloudless days, how reliable is the sun as a constant, predictable source of light?







8. When working in the digital darkroom your most active color mode will be?







9. Digital information about an image that accompanies a digital image is called

a. logical inferences

b. basic daylight exposure

c. metadata

d. camera obscura



10. When printing a high quality print with an inkjet printer your print would be best at…

a. 72.

b. 100.

c. 200.

d. 300.









11. The dpi of photos used on a web site is usually around?

a. 300 dpi.

b. 200 dpi.

c. 100 dpi.

d. 72 dpi.



12. When sending photos via email you should usually use what file format?

a. TIFF

b. JPEG

c. BMP

d. GIF