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The first permanent photograph was made in 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris. Niépce built on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. While this was the introduction of photography, the history of the camera can be traced back much further. Photographic cameras were a development of the camera obscura, a device dating back to the Book of Optics (1021) of the Iraqi Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), which uses a pinhole or lens to project an image of the scene outside onto a viewing surface.
Before the invention of photographic lapel processes there was no way to preserve the images produced by these cameras apart from manually tracing them. The earliest cameras were room-sized, with space for one or more people inside; these gradually evolved into more and more compact models such that by Niépce's time por (more)
| Added: | Aug 1, 2008 | Modified: | Aug 4, 2008 08:13 |
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| Category: | arts-entertainment | ||
| Tags: | camera timeline photography digital | ||
| Related Links: | http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera | ||
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Kyle[guest]
(Nov 10, 2008)
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Daphnie =][guest]
(Sep 20, 2008)
![]() | yeah i really needed help on the history of camera and this really helped me...
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alisha[guest]
(Sep 16, 2008)
![]() | you did a great job. it really helped me for my project. |
(Aug 10, 2008)
![]() | sure go ahead! |
Trina Garcia[guest]
(Aug 10, 2008)
![]() | I hope you don't mind if I use this as a resource for my digital photography students this year. You did a great job. |
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