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yes the pinhole was the very first camera invented!

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pin hole camera was invented by a Muslim scientist ib-nul-haitham.

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If I had to honestly guess.. I'd say 4th century BC, Greek's.

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It was unvented in the 1850's by Sir David Brewster

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Can pinhole cameras use a con flex lens?

No, because pinhole cameras don't have any lens.


How the first camera works?

The first cameras were pinhole cameras. They worked by the light from the image on the outside enters through the pinhole and flips it on to the film on the inside and the film captures it.


How are pinhole cameras and electromagnetic waves relate to each other?

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How was the cameras originally made?

Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera,


Why doesn't the Pinhole camera model always work in real life?

Pinhole cameras do work in real life. They just do not produce as good a quality of picture as most of our fancy high-tech cameras do. Partly, that is because you cannot regulate the light as well with a pinhole camera.


How are pinhole cameras used in everyday life?

It literally takes long-exposure photos through a pinhole that projects an inverted image into a darkened box.


Who invented the first photography?

The first known photograph was taken in 1825 by "Niecphore Niepce." however the camera obscura and pinhole cameras were developed before that, they just had no way of recording the image that was produced.


Why do pinhole cameras need long exposure times?

Because the aperture is tiny, so as to take advantage of the depth of field a small aperture will give. This lets pinhole cameras make sharp pictures without needing any way to focus them.


Which is older a box camera or a pinhole camera?

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Pinhole camera and human eye similarities?

I think a pinhole camera is similar to the human eye because like the pinhole camera when it sees something it reflects the image but it is an inverted image. With the human eye the brain corrects it and turns it the right way up. The pinhole cameras image is not corrected because it does not have a lens.


Are pinhole cameras legal to use?

Not only are pinhole cameras entirely legal to use, they can be fun to build and use. Making and using a pinhole camera uses all of the really important principles of photography. Any serious student of photography should do just that. Apart from the satisfaction of having a picture that you can say you created all by yourself, it will teach the principles in only two or three hours.