Fashion, design & style
The “Photography: from the daguerreotype to the phone” quiz — Fashion, design & style. It has 25 questions in five categories: Dawn of the image, Light & optics, Iconic cameras, The decisive frame, The digital age. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which French inventor introduced the first practical photographic process on silver-plated sheets to the world in 1839?
Which company revolutionized amateur photography in 1888 with the slogan "You press the button, we do the rest"?
Who captured the world's…
In the gameWhich early photographic printing…
In the gameWho patented the calotype…
In the gameWhat color safelight is traditionally used in darkrooms when making black-and-white photographic prints?
What Latin term, meaning "dark chamber", describes a box or room that projects an upside-down image through a small pinhole?
Which Japanese word is…
In the gameWhich adjustable mechanism with…
In the gameWhat optical aberration occurs…
In the gameWhich brand became globally famous for instant cameras that ejected fully developing physical photos within minutes?
Which Swedish medium-format camera maker saw its camera bodies left on the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts to save weight?
Which German brand pioneered…
In the gameWhich classic German twin-lens…
In the gameWhich rugged 1959 single-lens…
In the gameWhich classic composition rule recommends placing focal points along a grid dividing the frame into nine equal rectangles?
What famous concept of capturing the peak visual harmony of a fleeting scene was coined by Henri Cartier-Bresson?
Which American photographer became…
In the gameWhich legendary war photographer…
In the gameWhich English photographer used…
In the gameWhich term was named Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries in 2013 after millions began taking self-portraits on mobile phones?
Equal to one million pixels, what unit is standardly used to describe the image resolution of digital camera sensors?
Nicknamed the "digital negative"…
In the gameIn which country was…
In the gameWhich Eastman Kodak scientist…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.