Media Art Vocabulary List
A
Aberration
Acid
Additive color
Auto exposure
Auto focus
Agitate
Albumen
Alkali
Ambrotype
Angle of view
Aperture
Aperture-priority
Archive processing
Artificial light
ASA
Astigmatism
Automatic exposure
Automatic flash
Automatic focus
Ambient light
AV- Aperture Value
Available light
Axis lighting
B
Back lighting
Barrel distortion
Bellows
Bit
Bleed mount
Blocked up
Blotters
Bounce light
Bracket
Brightness
Broad lighting
Built in meter
Bulb
Burn in
Butterfly lighting
Byte
C
Cable release
Calotype
Camera
Camera obscura
Carte-de-visite
Cartridge
Cassette
Catch light
Changing bag
Characteristic curve
Chromatic aberration
Chrome
Chromatic film
Circle of confusion
Close-up
Close up lens
Collodion
Color balance
Colorcast
Color compensating filters
Color printer filters
Color printing filters
Color temperature
Color temperature meter
Coma
Complementary colors
Condenser enlarger
Contact printing
Contamination
Continuous tone
Contrast
Contrast filter
Contrast grade
Contrasty
Convergence
Cool
Correction filter
Coupled rangefinder
Covered power
Crop
Cut film
D
Daguerreotype
Darkroom
Dark slide
Daylight film
Dedicated flash
Dense
Densitometer
Density
Depth of focus
Designated flash
Developer
Development
Diaphragm
Dichroic head
Diffuse
Diffusion enlarger
Digital image
DIN
Diopter
Distortion
Dodge
Dropout
Dry mount
DX coding
E
Easel
EL
Electromagnetic spectrum
Electronic flash
Emulsion
Enlargement
Enlarger
Etch
EV
Existing light
Exposure
Exposure meter
Exposure Value
Extension Tubes
F
Factor
Farmer’s reducer
Fast
Ferrotype
Fiber-based paper
Field of curvature
Fill light
Film
Film holder
Film plane
Film speed
Filter factor
Fisheye lens
Fixer
Flare
Flash
Flashbulb
Flash meter
Flat
Flood light
F-number
Focal length
Focal-plane
Focal-plane shutter
Focal point
Focus
Focusing cloth
Fog
Frame
F-stop
Full scale
G
Gelatin
Glossy
Graded-contrast paper
Graininess
Gray card
Ground glass
Guide number
Gum-bichromate process
H
Halftone
Hanger
Hard
Hardware
Heliography
Highlight
Hot shoe
Hyperfocus distance
Hypo
Hypo clearing agent
Hypo neutralizing agent
I
Illuminance meter
Incandescent light
Incident light meter
Indoor film
Infinity
Infrared
Instant film
Intensification
Interchangeable lens
Inverse square lens
ISO
K
Kelvin temperature
Key light
Kilobyte
L
Latent image
Latitude
Leaf shutter
Lens
Lens shade
Light meter
Light tight
Line print
Lith film
Local reduction
Long lens
Luminance
Luminance meter
M
Macro lens
Macro photograph
Main light
Manual exposure
Manual flash
Mat
Mat knife
Matte
Megabyte
Middle gray
Midtone
Modeling
Mottle
N
Narrow lighting
Negative
Negative carrier
Negative film
Nonsilver process
Normal lens
Notching code
O
One-shot developer
Opaque
Open up
Orthochromatic
Overdevelop
Overexpose
Oxidation
P
Pan
Panochomatic
Parallax
PC connector
PC terminal
Perspective
Photoflood
Photogram
Photo macrograph
Photomicrograph
Photomontage
Pincushion distortion
Pinhole
Pixel
Plane of critical focus
Plate
Platinum print
Polarizing filter
Positive
Posterization
Presoak
Press camera
Primary colors
Print
Printing frame
Programmed automatic
Projection printing
Projection
Proof
R
Rangefinder
Raster streak
RC paper
Rear nodal point
Reciprocity law
Reduction agent
Reduction
Reel
Reflector
Reflex camera
Relative aperture
Replenished
Resin-coated paper
Reticulation
Reversal
Reversal film
RF
Roll film
S
Sabattier effect
Safelight
Selective-contrast paper
Sharp
Sheet film
Short lens
Short light
Shutter
Shutter-priority
Silhouette
Silver halide
Single-lens reflex
Slave
Slave eye
Slide
Slow
Software
Solarization
Speed
Spherical aberration
Spot
Spotlight
Spot meter
Stereograph
Stock solution
Stop
Stop bath
Stop down
Strobe
Subtractive
Subtractive color
Sync cord
Synchronize
Synchro-sun
T
Tracking iron
Taking lens
Tank
Telephoto effect
Telephoto lens
Tenting
Thin
Tintype
TLR
Tone
Transparency
Tripod
Tungsten film
Tungsten light
TV – time value
Twin lens reflex
Type A film
Type B film
U
W
Ultraviolet
Underdeveloped
Underexposed
Warm
Washing aid
Wet-plate process
Wetting agent
White light
Wide-angle distortion
Wide-angle solution
V
Value
Variable-contrast paper
View camera
Viewfinder
Viewing lens
Viewing screen
Vignette
Z
Zone focus
Zone system
Zoom lens