Photography: the early stages.

PSA Journal | September 1, 2003| | Copyright

To parody an old question to associate it with photography, I offer "What came first--the camera or the film?" Another interesting question is, "What came first--the camera or the lens?" The answer to the first question will lead you to the answer to the second question. I will try to answer the first question.

The forerunner of the camera is the camera obscura, first documented about 350 B.C. and certainly observed a long time before that. Camera obscura means dark room and, as Such, can have no use in making pictures until a lens is installed. In the absence of a ...

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