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A person who creates pictures using a camera is called a

• creator

• photographer

• camera person

• filmmaker

Select the 2 devices that can be used to take photographs.

• cell phone

• umbrella

• windows

• camera

Where does the word camera come from?

• chameleon

• chamomile

• photography

• camera obscura

The person to took the first permanent camera image is?

• Joseph Niepce

• Louis Daguerre

• Robert Cornelius

• George Eastman

The founder of the Kodak corporation (1888) and invented paper-based film.

• Edweard Muybridge

• George Eastman

• Luis Daguerre

• James Clerk Maxwell

What was the first mass produced camera? (year: 1900)

• Polaroid
• Kodak Brownie
• Camera Obscura
• Daguerreotype

This person invented the first true digital camera in 1975.

(hint: Kodak didn't like it and passed on the idea.)

• Steve Sasson

• Dr Edwin Land

• George Eastman

• Joseph Niepce

Who developed the first camera using digital electronics to capture and store images?

• Steven Sasson, an engineer from Kodak, in 1975

• Sammy Silverado, a documentary photographer in 1964

• Michelle Smith, an inventor, in 1922

• Rishka Romma, a celebrity blogger, in 2017

DSLR stands for...

• Digital Simple Light Return

• Dynamic Studio Lens Receiver

• Digital Single Lens Reflex

• Double Stage Light Reflector

A digital image is made up of

• vector graphics

• line art

• pixels

• chemicals