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The Pinhole Camera's Historical Connections

Most of us regularly take pictures of objects, people, and ourselves. All it takes now is a tap on our phone and less than a second of exposure time. For something that has become so common nowadays, photography was a very time consuming process, starting out as a luxury only the elite could afford.

The invention of the pinhole camera stimulated the invention of various different photographical developments, which in turn have influenced modern day innovations, such as the creations for apps like Snapchat and Instagram.

Alhazen, an arabic authority, was the first to create the pinhole camera in around 1000AD. The first pinhole camera was called Camera Obscura. Though the object had been made, it was not capable of taking any pictures yet. It was more often used for drawing and viewing objects

Soon thereafter, other inventions and discoveries concerned with photography took place, sparked by the original innovation of the pinhole camera. Such inventions included making positive images out of negative, tintypes, wet plate negatives, dry plate negatives, hand-held cameras. Roll film, and color photographs in respective chronological order.

This gave way to modern photography as we know it. The word itself, first only possibly done using large rooms, accessible only to the rich, has now developed so that is more convenient and easily available to us.

A few years later, Louis Daguerre found ways to minimize the exposure time to less than 30 minutes and to make the image more permanent. His method was named “the daguerreotype.” He aimed to “fix the image into a silver plated copper plate. After exposing the plate to light, he dipped it into a solution of silver chloride, allowing the image to last longer.

In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph in the world, using camera obscura, which Alhazen had previously created. He did so by allowing light expose itself to create a picture on metal plates. However, the images that he created faded away quickly, and required at least 8 hours of exposure time.

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For Pictures:

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For Information:

https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography

http://photo.net/history/timeline

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm

http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/whatis.html