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The camera obscura (Latin for "dark room") is an optical device that creates an image by focusing rays of light onto a screen or sheet of paper. How it works. In its simplest form, a camera obscura is a dark room with a small hole in one wall. When it's bright outside, light enters through the hole and projects an upside down image of the outside world onto the wall opposite the hole.

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Andrew
What is a Camera Lucida, and what do they look like? The camera lucida performs an optical superimposition of the subject being viewed upon the surface upon which the artist is drawing. The artist sees both scene and drawing surface simultaneously, as in a photographic double exposure. This allows the artist to duplicate key points of the scene on the drawing surface, thus aiding in the accurate rendering of perspective

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Dylan
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, creator of the first photograph. In 1826, Niépce used his heliography process to capture the first photograph, but his pioneering work was soon to be overshadowed by the invention of the daguerreotype. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was one of the most important figures in the invention of photography

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Luca
Who took the first photograph that included a person?
The earliest known photograph of a person was photographed in 1838 by Louis Daguerre. The image had the first human to have ever been captured on camera. Daguerre himself took what most believe to be his very early successful attempts at image-making of a human, in a street scene of France

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Emily
In 1939 Robert Cornelius has the honour of taking the first selfie, he took it in his backyard of his family's light fixture store.

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Not new at all, the world’s first selfie was snapped in 1839

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Natalie
Who was Daguerre, and what did he do in 1839? Write a paragraph, and post a photo here!

Louis Daguerre is a romantic painter and a printmaker. He was born on the 18th of November, 1787 and died on the 10th of July, 1851. Daguerre invented the Daguerreotype it was a popular Parisian spectacle featuring theatrical painting and lighting effects, making the images a one-of-a-kind image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper.

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Natarsha
Who was Fox Talbot, and what did he do in 1839? Was it an improvement on the invention of Daguerre in the same year? Why or why not? Write a paragraph, and post a photo of Fox Talbot's invention here!

William Henry Fox Talbot was credited as the British inventor of photography, scientist and inventor. He invented the Calotype which is also sometimes called the "Talbotype". In this technique, a sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a camera obscura and those areas hit by light became dark in tone, yielding a negative image. The revolutionary aspect of the process lay in Talbot’s discovery of a chemical (gallic acid) that could be used to “develop” the image on the paper. The developing process permitted much shorter exposure times in the camera, down from one hour to one minute. These 'negatives' could be used to make multiple prints and this process revolutionised image making. The calotype process produced a translucent original negative image from which multiple positives could be made by simple contact printing. This gave it an important advantage over the daguerreotype process, which produced an opaque original positive that could be duplicated only by copying it with a camera.

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1843: First book illustrated with photographs

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1843: First book illustrated with photographs

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William
The following image type is a cyanotype which was created by Anna Atkins in 1843. A cyanotype is an image which is created with potassium ferricyanide (cyanide) and works by placing an object on a sheet of paper with the ferricyanide on it and placing it in the sun. The ferricyanide and sun reacts together and creates an image of what was placed on the paper. The image produced by Anna is pictures/cyanotypes of British Alage.

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Lili
What is celluloid? Why was the development of celluloid roll film an important development in photography? Write a paragraph, and post a photo of celluloid roll film here!

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Julian
What did George Eastman invent in 1888? What was the impact of this? Write a paragraph and post a photo of Eastman's invention here.
George Easteman invented the "Kodak" camera which was the first roll film camera to be created. He sold the cameras already prepared with enough roll for 100 exposures inside. The impact it made on the community was to allow easy access to cameras/ photography.

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Joey
Who worked out how best to capture subjects in motion? (Eadweard Muybridge) Write a one paragraph description, and post a photo here. (Muybridge had images from his motion studies hand-copied in the form of silhouettes or line drawings onto a disc, to be viewed in the machine he had invented, which he called a "zoopraxiscope". Later, his more-detailed images were hand-coloured and marketed commercially.)

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Joey
What did Dr Julius Neubronner do in 1907? Read this article, then explain what's going on in the image above.
(In 1907 the apothecary and amateur pigeon fancier Dr Julius G. Neubronner presented a solution to the German patent office the pigeon camera.)
(Since 1903 Neubronner had been using pigeons to exchange prescriptions and urgent medications with a sanatorium and In 1907, German apothecary Julius Neubronner invented an aerial photography technique known as pigeon photography. By affixing a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera to an aluminium breast harness, Neubronner attached his design to homing pigeons who would then be able to capture aerial photographs during their flight.)

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oooh pigeon photo

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Savannah
Who invented this camera in 1913, and why is it so important in the evolution of photography? Write a paragraph.

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Bella
What did Edwin Land launch in 1948?

Edwin Herbert Land was an innovative American inventor and physicist responsible for revolutionising traditional photography.

Land's instant photography system allowed photos to be produced in the duration of 60 seconds. The photographs were composed of sepia-toned images and photographers were expected to wait a minute before peeling away the negative backing of the image. which In November, 1948 the first Polaroid camera, called Model 95 was sold at a department store in Boston.

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Rory
What is an SLR Camera? Write a paragraph, and post a photo here!

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The technology to produce images in colour was invented long before the 1970s, but it only became affordable in the 70s and 80s. Watch this video for a description of the process your parents would have gone through to take a photo in the 'olden days'!

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Who invented the first digital camera, and what did it look like? Write a paragraph, and post photos here. Include a photo of the digital camera, and images taken on the camera.

An Eastman Kodak engineer Steve Sasson influenced the development of the first digital camera. In 1975 Sasson invented the first camera to display photos on screen. The camera was the size of a breadbox and weighed almost four kilograms. It captured black-and-white imaged on a digital cassette tape and took 23 seconds to capture a single image.

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What was the first camera phone called? What did it look like? Write a paragraph, and post a photo here.

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Natarsha
What's the difference between a DSLR (like the Canon EOS 1200D we use at school) and a Mirrorless Digital Camera? Write a paragraph and post photos of both type of camera here.

DSLR stands for Digital Single Lens Reflex, which works by the light hitting a mirror angled at 45 degrees. The light goes into the optical viewfinder, allowing you to see exactly what the lens is looking at. However the mirroless camera has no mirror. The light passes through the lens and straight onto the sensor to be processed. It’s then displayed either on the monitor on the back of the camera, or in the electronic viewfinder (EVF). A key advantage for the mirrorless camera is since they don’t need that big clunky mirror setup, they can be smaller and lighter than their equivalent DSLR counterparts. They also have super-quick focusing speeds. DSLR's have better battery life with an average of more than 1000 shots on a charge.

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© Robert Irwin – ‘Bushfire’ – Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Awards – Natural History Museum, London

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Robert Irwin won the People’s Choice Award, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 for his work called ‘Bushfire’.

Read this article, then explain the controversy surrounding his win.

List three rules for drone photography in Australia.

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Read this brief article. Which of the 7 predictions for the future of photography do you find most interesting? Are there any you disagree with?