Name
Mr.Engelkes
Literacy period: 6/7
12/10/14
The History Behind The Camera
There’s a albino chipmunk and it’s something that you can’t forget! So you take out your camera and FLASH! You take a picture and now it’s a new memory! But how did your camera become a camera? How was your camera able to print your picture? Well take a second to think about it and get ready for the information your about to hear! First let’s start with the definition of Camera: A device for recording visual images in the forms of photographs. Camera’s are important because they collect memories and over time they stay the same and never change. So enough about the present camera let’s talk about how the Camera became the camera. It all began with philosopher Mo Di and two greek math people Aristole and Euclid. They created the pinhole camera in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE. The pinhole camera is a basic camera without a lense but it has a small apeture. The pinhole is a light proof box with a small hole in one side. The light from the scene passes throught this single point projects an invertied image on the other side of the box. Shortly after they created the pinhole camera Albertus Magnus discovered silver nitrate, and George Fabricius discovered silver chloride. …show more content…
Over time Renaissance painters used the camera obscura. Fun fact the Camera Obscura legitly means “dark chamber” in latin. The camera obscurais a box with a whole in it which allows light to go through and create an image onto a piece of
Mr.Engelkes
Literacy period: 6/7
12/10/14
The History Behind The Camera
There’s a albino chipmunk and it’s something that you can’t forget! So you take out your camera and FLASH! You take a picture and now it’s a new memory! But how did your camera become a camera? How was your camera able to print your picture? Well take a second to think about it and get ready for the information your about to hear! First let’s start with the definition of Camera: A device for recording visual images in the forms of photographs. Camera’s are important because they collect memories and over time they stay the same and never change. So enough about the present camera let’s talk about how the Camera became the camera. It all began with philosopher Mo Di and two greek math people Aristole and Euclid. They created the pinhole camera in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE. The pinhole camera is a basic camera without a lense but it has a small apeture. The pinhole is a light proof box with a small hole in one side. The light from the scene passes throught this single point projects an invertied image on the other side of the box. Shortly after they created the pinhole camera Albertus Magnus discovered silver nitrate, and George Fabricius discovered silver chloride. …show more content…
Over time Renaissance painters used the camera obscura. Fun fact the Camera Obscura legitly means “dark chamber” in latin. The camera obscurais a box with a whole in it which allows light to go through and create an image onto a piece of