The Camera

1. The camera obscura effect is when light is coming in to a dark room through a hole. To achieve this you need a dark room and a small hole with light going through, and the hole acts like lens.

2. People came closer to a modern camera when Sir Issac Newton perfected the study of optics and the process of making high quality glass lenses.

3.  The parts of the first modern camera were a glass lens, a dark box, and finally a film.

4. What has stayed the same is that light passes into the camera and creates the film.

5. Digital cameras use something called a CCD and this can also be used for memory.

6. In auto mode the camera will flash by itself along with other things but with program mode you can control what your settings are.

7. The program mode focuses on one object and blurs out the background and is usually used for portraits.

8. The sports mode will freeze motion and use the highest speed possible.

9.  The photographer must set the shutter and aperture modes.

10.  If you half press the camera the camera will focus in.

11.  This symbol means that the flash has been turned off. You will use this when you want a  picture to have some natural light.

12. This is auto flash and you will need to use this when the picture needs more light.

13. Too much light in the picture is a result in the picture being washed out.

14.  Too little light is a result in the picture being too dark.

15. stop is a relative measurement of light.

16. If we had two suns the planet would be 2x brighter.

17. The planet would also be 2x brighter if we had 4 suns instead of 2.

18. Longer shutter means more light.
19. Shorter shutter means less light.
20.The aperture controls the light.
21. You can control the light using the F stop.