Pinhole Camera History

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Cameras and photography has made a huge impact in our society for hundreds of years. But without a camera, there can be no photo. The first camera was called the pinhole camera, also known as the camera obscura. The idea of this camera was invented back in the 5th century BCE. It wasn’t your typical camera like the ones we have today but it’s the best concept they had to build and improve to make a structure like the ones we have today. The pinhole camera was made out of a box with a small hole inside it and inside, a light would travel and reflect against a mirror. The light itself carries the image. The Pinhole camera was often used to observe solar events and help draw architecture such as homes and buildings. The person that created the physical pinhole camera was an Arabian physicist and mathematician name Ibn al-Haytham, also known as Alhazen. At the time of putting it together, he was experimenting with image formation back in the 10th century and what came about his discovery was that he was arranging three candles in a row and put a screen with a small hole between the candles and the wall. He realized that the images were being formed by the small holes and the …show more content…
In 1826 a French inventor, Joseph Nicephore Niepce burned the first permanent photograph using heliography, also known as sun drawing. To accomplish that, he used a wooden box to take photographs. Niepce and another man came up with a process of photos called Daguerreotype process in 1836. They would coat copper place with silver and treat it with iodine vapor to create his sun drawings. The plate would be sensitive to light, so exposing the photo after it’s taken to mercury vapor or just salt, the image would show up. But later on, the first pinhole image was taken by a Scottish scientist name, Sir David Brewster. He took his first image in 1850s. He was also writing a book at the time and wrote in his book and wrote out pinhole as

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