What the f/stop!

How much do you really know about photography? Test yourself to the max every issue with our tricky trivia quiz!

Keep your brains sharp with our cunning photographic quiz

1 If you use a circular fisheye lens on a full-frame camera, how much of the rectangular frame will the circular image occupy?

A 40% B 50% C 60% D 70%

2 Singer and songwriter Patti Smith (best known for the song ‘Because the Night’) was once the girlfriend of which celebrated photographer?

A Richard Avedon B Helmut Newton C Robert Mapplethorpe D Bruce Davidson

3 If a memory card has 1000x written on it (like the Lexar card here), what is its maximum read speed?

A 1,000Mbps B 1,000Kbps C 150Mbps D 150Kbps

4 Which of these is not a colour mode in Photoshop?

D CMYK B LAB C RGB D HDR

5 Which British band had a hit with the song ‘Girls on Film’?

D Aztec Camera B Duran Duran C Spandau Ballet D Depeche Mode

6 Which of these photographers was not a founding member of Magnum?

D Robert Capa B Henri Cartier-Bresson C David ‘Chim’ Seymour D Elliott Erwitt

7 What is the usual order of the chemical baths used in traditional black-and-white film processing?

A Wash, develop, fix, stop B Develop, stop, wash, fix C Develop, stop, fix, wash D Stop, fix, wash, develop

8 Which of these can be classed as a telephoto lens?

A 35mm B 70mm C 200mm D It is impossible to say

9 Reverse ND grad filters are particularly useful for shooting which type of subject?

A Cityscapes B Waterfalls C Sunsets D The Milky Way

10 Which of these lenses has a 4x zoom ratio?

A 70-200mm f/4 B 75-300mm f/4-5.6 C 16mm f/4 D 4-12mm f/1.6