Develpment in the History of Photography

... Developments in the History of Photography The Camera Obscura (a dark room) The method involved viewing and recording exterior scenes from an interior vantage point. It was a popular medium used by artists in the 17th Century. The set up or procedure was similar to that of a pinhole camera and some Camera Obscuras used a pin hole instead if a lens. The method didn't give very accurate results because the perspective angles were wrong due to the simplicity of the lens at this period of time; this caused distortion of the subject. The camera wasn't very portable either due to its large size! The image would disperse onto a translucent surface inside the dark box-like structure; where it would be traced. In the 1700's the Camera Obscura was reduced to a 24 inch box. Joseph Nicephore Niepce Niepce stabilized the first camera image by exposing (using the camera obscura), a metal plate coated

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