What is exposure? What effect does exposure have on imaging?

exposure, in photography, refers to making the light pass through the lens to form the image light, which enters the black box and reaches the photosensitive film, so that the film emulsion produces the latent image in the photochemical process. Sometimes exposure is also called exposure when photographic film is improperly exposed to light and fails.

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