History Of Photography Quiz 1

Front 1

This early inventor demonstrated how changing the size of an aperture would produce a sharper image as you made a smaller pinhole?

Back 1

Alhazan

Front 2

Which early inventor would cut words into a piece of paper, wrap the paper around a bottle filled with calcium nitrate and silver carbonate, then expose it to light?

Back 2

Johann Heinrich Schulze

Front 3

The earliest surviving description of a camera obscura was written by whom?

Back 3

Leonardo da Vinci

Front 4

Many people have observed that if light passes through a small hole into a darkened room an image of the outside world would result? When is the earliest recorded instance of someone noticing this?

Back 4

Fifth Centure b.c.e

Front 5

Which of these people were not known for inventing an early photographic process?

Back 5

Count Francois Arago

Front 6

A Camera Obscura consists of a small glass prism attached to a thin rod and then mounted over a piece of paper. You could then look down through the prism and be able to see both the subject and the drawing surface. T/F

Back 6

True

Front 7

This inventor is the first person to succeed in making a permanent camera based image

Back 7

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Front 8

Who solved the problem of making a camera produced image permanent by “fixing” it.

Back 8

Sir John Herschel