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What are two items often seen in the world that tend to reflect about 18% light and can be used like a gray card?

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1. What are two items often seen in the world that tend to reflect about 18% light and can be used like a gray card?

It's a recommendation for f/stop and shutter speed settings for most outdoor situations. It is NOT the best choice if you want to maximize DOF.
Taken from German physicist Ernst Abbe's name, they're defects in an image produced by a lens, account for a reduction in the resolution of an image. Most, by not all, involve the inability of a lens to focus light at a precise point on the sensor. The result is 'softness' to the image and loss of clarity. The solution is by stopping the lens down 2 to 3 stops. Hence the Rule of Thumb for taking examination quality photos.
Grass and well worn asphalt. New asphalt doesn't work, its too dark.
Because the background will be magnified with a telephoto lens, making it appear enlarged, the relative perceived distance between the camera and the background is necessarily compressed. This perceived distance between the foreground and a magnified object in the background appears to be shorter.

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