Pinhole Camera

The first pinhole camera was invented by Alhazen, who was a great authority in optics in the time of the middle ages. Alhazen was able to why when a picture was being taken it was upside down. The pinhole camera was also called the Camera Obscura. The camera is a small-enclosed box with a little hole that is placed on either one of the sides on the camera. When the light is allowed to come through the small hole, an image of the object gets projected onto the opposite side of the box. In 1544 a German physicist and mathematician, Gemma Frisius used the concept of light projection in a small room to observe the solar eclipse, which is the first documented time that the pinhole method was used. The actual first photograph taken with a pinhole camera wasn’t until 1850 by a Scottish scientist name Sir David Bewster. The camera was not actually recognized in the terms of popularity until the 1960’s. The image that the pinhole creates is soft, the outlines of objects are not sharp, and due to the light conditions needs a long exposure to allow the light in. Due to the fact of needing a long exposure the camera doesn’t take frozen shots of motion.

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