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What problems did early applications of the camera obscura solve?
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What does Camera stand for?
The term camera comes from the word camera obscura(Latin for "dark chamber"), an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura.
What is a late 1800s to early 1900s camera called?
a late 1800 to early 1900 camera is called a camera.The word camera comes from camera obscura;a dark room with a hole to let in light and sometimes a lens.A camera obscura is used sometimes to aid artists in drawing or sketching a scene.Joseph Daguerre discovered photography by accident;he was sketching a scene in a camera obscura on a silver plate and used a weak acid solution to remove his sketch when he was done.He left the plate in the camera obscura overnight and dicovered that an image had formed on the silver the next day.
Who discover the camera?
No one discovered the camera. It was invented. To have something discovered it has to all ready exist in nature. As early as the 5th century BC the Chinese and Greeks had basic optics/camera. In 1814 Joseph Niepce invented the camera obscura.
What was the first person doing in the photography?
The first person to use the camera was its inventor, Alexander Wolcott. His first camera model was created in the year 1840.
How made the first camera?
There was no identifiable first maker of a camera, unless you specify photographic camera, for which the answer would be Nicephore Niepce, in 1816. The camera obscura (dark chamber) was first described in detail in the early 11th century by an Arab scholar named Alhazen (Hassan Ibn Alhaitham or Hassan Ibn Hassan), as a device for safely viewing solar eclipses. The earliest record of a suggestion for a portable camera obscura dates to 1606 (Friedrich Reisner), and Athanasius Kircher illustrated a portable camera obscura in his Ars Magna in 1646. A smaller camera obscura is described by Kaspar Schott in 1657, and an example built by him. Johann Zahn described a number of very small portable cameras in 1685, by which date the device is considered to have been ready and waiting for the invention of photography (see Gernsheim). The first camera obscura put to photographic use was made in 1816 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, who took the first negatives on sensitized paper, but was unable to fix the images. The first permanent photo was made using a camera in 1826 by Niepce.
Was there cameras in 1599?
The correct spelling is "Were". Yes, there was; though they weren't as modern as they are now.
How was the camera obscura used to help artists?
The camera obscura was a very early form of a device now called an "opaque projector". By looking at an image of a 3-dimensional object projected onto a sheet of paper, an artist could more closely reproduce its details. The use of a camera obscura is considered by some artists to be a form of "tracing" so its use as an artistic aid wasn't always well-publicized. *I would offer that the reason had more to do with reproducing perspective as accurately as possible when representing 3 dimensional scenes on to 2 dimensional art. At one time in the artist's world, perspective was of utmost importance because there was a sector of artists and collectors that concerned themselves (perhaps too much) with spatial relationships. Two renderings of the same scene could be interpreted by the artists in different ways. So how to know which was "right". They thought the answer lay in the use of the camera obscura, which enabled the artist to render the scene on paper, thus capturing the "real" perspective. Micron
When was the camera obscura first created?
camera obscurathe concept was first thought of somewhere between 470BC and 390BC. It wasn't actually built until the 10th century by Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham
Who was the first person to create paper negatives in a camera obscura?
The "camera obscura" (dark chamber) was a technique for projecting an image into a darkened space or container, using a pinhole and later a lens. The technique was known to scholars of ancient Greece, Arabia, India, and China, as early as the 5th century BC.
Who was Charles and Vincent Chevalier?
They were opticians and instrument makers (Charles the son, Vincent the father) who made lenses for the camera obscura (not to be confused with the early photographic cameras). Nicéphore Niépce, and Daguerre collaborated with the Chevalier's to create lenses for their prototype cameras. After a time, Charles formed his own company and created the first folding camera.
How were cameras back then?
It is believed that the camera was invented during the early 1500's. And I'm not talking about the high technology, snapshot camera we have today lol. The first unsophisticated camera was called the camera obscura, which meant dark chamber. Artists were the only people who used the camera as a tool mostly to help them sketch scenery. They would trace the shapes and lines, and then color the picture they took. The camera worked by light entering a tiny hole on one side of the dark box that was big enough to fit a grown human being. The light formed an image on the opposite wall. The picture was an upside-down image of the scenery outside the box. .-. During the 1660's the length of the camera was reduced to around two feet. A lens placed over the holes made the image larger and sharper. A mirror inside the camera reflected the image onto a piece of ground glass at the top of the camera. The camera obscura provided a way to project an image on a wall or a screen, but this procedure wasn't permanent. Artists still had to trace the image to preserve it. THX :D
What is an example of an early digital camera?
An early digital camera was the Kodak DC120, which created 1.2 Megapixel images.
