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Subject: [Leica] Quiz time....
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Wed Feb 2 13:25:17 2005
References: <013c01c50963$a8b69f00$6401a8c0@ccapr.com>

1.  What is a photographic negative?

2.  What is a photographic transparency?

3.  Does an f2 ("faster") lens admit more light to the film than an f11 lens?

4.  Does a "faster" shutter speed admit more or less light to the film?

(I should be charging you for this.)

>Okay, gang, let's give a quiz....
>The new semester starts for me tomorrow at 7 p.m., and I am planning to
>give a short, simple quiz - multiple choice - to get a sense of what my
>students do and don't know about the basics of photography - mechanics,
>not history or aesthetics.
>
>I don't care if they've ever shot film, know anything about processing
>or printing. What I want to know is what they know about using a camera
>- digital or film.
>
>I have plenty of questions, but I wonder what any of you would ask...
>
>Thanks -
>B. D.
>
>P.S. I don't care if they know which version of the pre-asph 50
>Summicron is considered the best by Erwin Puts, nor do I care, or could
>I ask, if they know what a NOOKY is...:-)


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-- 
Regards,

Dick
Boston MA

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