Welcome to the Photographer merit badge guide for Fallout 76! As with all of the Possum merit badges, make sure you’ve earned the Possum rank if you wish for your requirements to count. If you like doing things multiple times just for the fun of it, then don’t worry about it and go right ahead. The Photographer merit badge might just be the easiest Possum badge to complete, as long as you have a camera, so go to town! Before we get to tips, here are the requirements.

Pass “Photographer” knowledge exam at an exam terminal
Mod a Camera
Craft camera film (x/50)
Take a camera picture of the Charleston Capital Building
Take a camera picture of Grafton Dam
Take a camera picture of Top of the World
Take a camera picture of a Wendigo
Take a camera picture while it’s foggy
Take a camera picture while it’s raining
Take a camera picture at sunrise
Take a camera picture at sunset
Take a camera picture at night

If you’re looking for the answers to the Photographer knowledge exam, you’ll find them at the bottom of this article in an expandable tab. Once you complete the Bucket List mission, you can mod a different lens onto your camera. If you have an Atom Shop skin your your camera, that might also work, but we haven’t tested that yet. Crafting film has been a daily/weekly in the past, but you’ll need film for lots of these events, so might as well craft what you need now.

Once that’s done, just get to taking pictures, and as you do so for this merit badge, and hit up the other photo requirements throughout other merit badges, this one should be a breeze. And just a reminder for taking a picture of a Wendigo, as with the vast majority of creatures, it doesn’t matter if they’re alive or dead. If their body disappears when they die (as with bee swarms and the mothman), then you have to take a picture of them whilst alive.

Photographer Knowledge Exam Questions and Answers

A photograph is taken by projecting light onto a photographic surface. What is the most common photographic surface used?: Film
After a long day of taking photographs, Mark takes his film back to his lab to process it. He uses a special room to do so. What do you call this special room?: A darkroom
Alfonso likes to sleep in, so he always keeps his room as dark as possible. One day, he wakes up to find an upside down image of his neighbor’s house projected onto his wall! What do you call this crazy phenomenon?: Camera obscura
Brendan took a photo of his cat Snippers that looked “washed out”, or too bright. It turns out his picture was “overexposed”. What is “exposure” in photography?: How much light reaches the film
Cameras work by focusing light onto a surface that records the image. What does the camera use to focus light?: A lens
Erin is a little superstitious, so she’s very curious about the supernatural side of photography. When photography was brand new, she says, spiritualists were interested because they thought photographs of people let you see what?: Their soul
Frenchman Louis Daguerre developed an early form of photography using chemicals and silver-plated copper. What was the name of his process?: Daguerreotypy
Hannah is trying to make her own photographic film. She needs to coat the film in a gelatin that has light-sensitive crystals in it. What kind of crystals should she use?: Silver halide
Nicephore Niepce pioneered photoengraving, a predecessor of photography. When did he make his first major breakthrough?: 1822
On your family vacation to Summersville, you find a lost camera on a park bench. After developing the photographs, you discover that they’re sensitive pictures of Camp McClintock! What do you do?: Turn them in to the authorities
Photography projects light onto a surface to create a visible image, but the surface must be sensitive to light for this to happen. What’s another word for light-sensitivity?: Photosensitivity
Richard is taking long-exposure photos of the night sky to make cool trails of light in his pictures. What does Richard adjust on his camera to take long-exposure photographs?: Its shutter speed
Samuel is helping out at Vault-Tec University by sorting through their old nitrate film collection. He stops to take a smoke break and lights up a cigarette. But wait! That’s really dangerous! Why?: Nitrate film is very flammable
Susie likes to take pictures, and her favorite subjects are people. She has you sit in a boring pose and takes your picture. What is this kind of picture called?: A portrait
When Mary takes a picture with her camera, it creates a photographic “negative” that she then processes. What is the main benefit of producing this negative?: Making positive photos from it
When light travels through a camera lens and hits the film behind, it goes through a hole on the front of the camera that sets how much light gets through. What is this hole called?: An aperture
When you take a picture, an invisible image forms on the photographic film that only shows up after processing. What is this invisible image called?: Latent
You’re taking pictures of Mark, but he seems blurry when looking through the viewfinder. You can make an adjustment to the lens’ range to make him look clearer. What are you adjusting when you do this?: The focus
You’ve finished the photographic process by producing a photographic image on paper! What is this paper image called?: A print
You’ve taken a photograph and want to make an image from the film. What is the name for process?: Development