JKSSB Cameraman Syllabus & Exam Pattern
Official 120-mark written examination syllabus for Cameraman covering Camera Mechanics, Optics & Sensor Technology (Mirrorless vs DSLR Systems, Optical vs Electronic Viewfinders EVF, Lens Mounts Nikon F & Canon EF, Prime, Zoom, Wide-Angle, Telephoto & Super Telephoto Lenses, Constant vs Variable Aperture, True 1:1 Macro Reproduction, Tilt-Shift Perspective Correction, Anastigmatic Lenses, Diopter Eyepiece Adjustment, Optical Image Stabilization OIS, Leaf Shutters in TLR vs Focal Plane, CMOS vs CCD Sensor Architecture, Full Frame vs APS-C Crop Factor, RAM Buffer Limits, Vidicon Tube Quartz Faceplate, Bellows Movements in Large Format View Cameras, Rangefinder Parallax Error & Swing-Lens Panoramic Cameras), Exposure Triangle, Lighting & Composition Techniques (Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO Reciprocity & Equivalent Exposures, Dynamic Range & Bit Depth, Exposure Latitude, Spot vs Matrix Metering, Studio Lighting Ratios 3:1, Flat Lighting, Backlighting in Food Photography, Feathered Light, Hair Lights, Softbox Diffusion, Gobos, Classic Rembrandt Lighting Triangle, Focus Stacking, Autofocus Modes AF-S, AF-C, Auto-Servo, Focus Peaking, Leading Lines, Symmetrical Monument Centering, Eye-Level vs Establishing Shots, Aspect Ratios, Polarizing & Graduated ND Filters, 18% Neutral Gray Card Calibration, Photogrammetry & Ethical Wildlife Sustainability), History of Photography & Classical Chemical Processes (Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1816/1826 Heliography with Bitumen of Judea & 8-hour exposure, Louis Daguerre 1839 Daguerreotype, William Henry Fox Talbot Calotype Paper Negatives, Wet & Dry Ferrotypes / Tintypes on Japanned Iron Plates, Ambrotype Glass Positives, Silver Bromide Film Emulsion, Panchromatic Spectral Sensitivity, Solar-Assisted Ricoh XR-S SLR 1980s, Group f/64 Straight Photography 1930s Ansel Adams & Edward Weston, Photo-Secession 1902 Alfred Stieglitz & Pictorialism Fine Art Movement), and Digital Image Processing, Color Models & Post-Production (RAW Uncompressed Sensor Data, Lossy JPEG vs Lossless PNG/TIFF, CMYK Print vs RGB Display, HSL Color Model, Color Temperature in Kelvin, White Balance Shift, Histograms & Highlight/Shadow Clipping, HDR Fusion, Computer Graphics, Operating System Resource Management, SSD vs HDD Durability, Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom Workflow, Layers, History Brush, Puppet Warp, Gradient Tool, Crop Tool & Gaussian Blur Noise Filtering).
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Camera Mechanics, Optics & Sensor Technology
Exposure Triangle, Lighting & Composition Techniques
History of Photography & Classical Chemical Processes
Digital Image Processing, Color Models & Post-Production
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