Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each camera type to the working situation it suits best.
- View camera
- Rangefinder
- Single-lens reflex
- Phone camera
- Architecture and studio still life, where the planes must be controlled
- Close-up and long-lens work, where framing must be exact
- Quiet reportage with wide and normal lenses in poor light
- The picture that would not otherwise have been taken at all
Hints
- Two of the four are chosen for what they let you see, and two for where they let you be.
- One of them is chosen for being present rather than for any optical merit.
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- View camera → Architecture and studio still life, where the planes must be controlled
- Rangefinder → Quiet reportage with wide and normal lenses in poor light
- Single-lens reflex → Close-up and long-lens work, where framing must be exact
- Phone camera → The picture that would not otherwise have been taken at all
Why
The last pairing is not a joke. The decisive advantage of a phone camera is availability, and availability has changed what photography is about more than any optical development since the roll film, which is a claim about the medium rather than about image quality.
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