Camera obscura

According to the history of cameras, the first camera ever developed was called camera obscura later developed into daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras. An Arab person named Ibn al-Haytham was the first ever person who created the camera. He published his Book of Optics in 1021 AD. He produced the first pinhole camera after observing how light travelled through a window shutter. He realized that smaller holes would create sharper images. He is also credited with inventing the first camera obscura. Camera obscura uses a pinhole or lens to project an image of the actual scene upside down onto a viewing surface. Camera obscura lead into the development of the first photographic camera. Pinhole cameras like the Camera…

Vermeer used oil to paint this master piece that would forever be a part of history. Using camera obscura Vermeer was able to create a very detailed painting because device that aided him on his work. When the whole that the light comes through is smaller the image becomes sharper leading to a more detailed piece of art. Modern ones would have a lens to make the image bigger. Vermeer was also famous for his special blend of oil that was known by other artist but nobody was able to perfect it…

The pinhole camera was one of the first known camera to ever exist. It was first discovered in 5th Century B.C, in Beijing China. the Mohist philosopher anya mentioned the effect of an inverted image forming through a pinhole. The image of an inverted Chinese pagoda is mentioned in Duan Chengshi’s book “Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang" written during the Tang Dynasty which occurred in the years 618–907. A Philosopher by the name of Mo Tsu was then the first known person on record to record…

of years later, our artists are still being influenced by the world around them and the tools available. During the Industrial Revolution paint began being sold in tubes, and the realm of those who enjoyed and purchased art was expanded. Paintings have always been influenced by what was around the artists who painted them, and the invention of the camera was no different. The introduction of the camera into society has changed the direction of the visual characteristics of painting. The timing…

relate, to reveal, to celebrate, and to protect” (“National Geographic”). The basic concept of photography has been around since about the 5th century B.C.E., but when the camera obscura was invented around the 11th century, it changed how photography worked and how it was used. Photography is the, “method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material” (Rosenblum). The word photography comes from the greek photos, “light”…

that appreciated the beauty and simplicity of nature, in response to the materialism of the industrialization. This is evident when viewing John Everett Millais’s Ophelia. Photography also impacted people’s everyday lives. According to Jonathan Crary, to understand the photography effect, “one must see it as a crucial component of a new cultural economy of value and exchange” (Techniques of the Observer). The introduction of photography initiated many fundamental changes in society that had a…

Thomas Edison, Louis and Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès, and many others. Eadward Muybridge was one of the first to use photographs to capture motion through an experiment to see if a horse ever had all four legs up off the ground at once while in a sprint, and this led to the invention of the zoopraxiscope. Another particularly innovative device was created by Thomas Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickinson called the Kinetoscope, which displayed a spinning series of images in a box that…

What is a camera obscura? What is the principal of optics that makes it work? “A camera obscura, which is literally means ‘darkened room.’ It uses a lens and a sequence of mirrors to project an image of the surrounding landscape onto a viewing surface.” (http://www.scopex.co.za/files/Camera-obscura-ML-1207.pdf) “The principle of optics that makes it work was light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected form a bright subject passes through a small hole in thin material…

Body History Photography was difficult during the Civil War, especially those who ventured out to the battlefields with their cameras. It was a difficult and time consuming process. Photographers had to carry all of their heavy equipment, including their darkroom, by wagon. Cameras in the time of the Civil War were bulky and difficult to maneuver. Which made it a lot more difficult for the photographers to photograph the war. They also had to position the camera just right so the camera would…

Before the camera was invented it was really difficult to record an image. You had to stand very still for a long time for the picture to be taken. If you moved just a little bit the picture would turn out blurry. In the year of 1881 George Eastman started making dry plates (Dry plates were round disks that were used instead of film). Then in 1883, George Eastman created a thin strip of paper covered in gelatin emulsion and silver balide, which is what we call film. Finally, he invented the…