Cameras, Formats & Systems

4 terms

A folding large-format camera built light enough to carry, trading some movement range for portability.

The distance from a camera's lens mounting flange to the sensor or film plane.

A shutter made of two curtains that travel across the sensor just in front of it, exposing the frame as a moving slit at high speeds.

A sensor the same size as a 35 mm film negative, 36 by 24 millimetres, treated as the reference format for focal length and depth of field.