Photography terms:
Aperture- Optics. An opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument
Depth of Field - The range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument.
Darkroom - A room in which film is made, handled, or developed and from which the actinic rays of light are excluded.
Developer - A reducing agent or solution for developing a film.
Enlargement- Anything, as a photograph, that is an enlarged form of something.
F-stop - The setting of an adjustable lens aperture.
Fixer - A person or thing that fixes.
ISO ( isolated camera)- A television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
Panning - Any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
Single-lens reflex camera (SLR) - A single-lens reflex (SLR) camera is a camera that typically uses a semi-automatic moving mirror system.
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Telephoto lens- A lens constructed to produce a relatively large image with a focal length shorter than required by an ordinary lens producing an image of the same size: used to photograph small or distant objects.
View Camera- A camera equipped with a lens mount and film holder that can be raised or set at an angle.
Viewfinder camera- Is what the photographer looks through to compose, and in many cases to focus, the picture.
Zoom lens - A lens, whose focal length can be continuously adjusted to provide various degrees of magnification without any loss of focus.
Continuous tone photography - Refers to images that have a virtually unlimited range of color or shades of grays.
Lens - A lens is an optical device which transmits and refracts light.
Telephoto lens - A camera lens that magnifies the image.
Wide-angle lens - A camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view.
Shutter - A shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time.
