The first Pinhole camera (Camera Obscura) was used to trace an image. Camera Obscura is used to make an image on metal plates coated with chemicals. This was when the first permanent photograph was ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Something strange and wonderful happens when light enters a dark space through a tiny opening. Aristotle described the ...

French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt ...

As far is known, he built the first working camera obscura, which he used beginning in 1569 to project the images of unsuspecting guests into a special room for the delight of a few select ...

If you're traveling with kids, there is no better place in Edinburgh than Camera Obscura and World of Illusions. Located at the top of the heavily (tourist) trafficked Royal Mile, Camera Obscura ...

I’ve been following Ben McCarthy’s journey with Obscura since the app first launched in 2015, watching the app as it has evolved alongside changes to Apple’s camera hardware. Camera apps pose unique ...

Today, one of the first things many photography students are taught is how to blackout a room to create a camera obscura — or (same principle) a pinhole camera. And that’s how Morell ...

I’ve used manual camera apps in the past, but always wound up going back to Apple’s option ... Currently, tapping the copy button crashes Obscura, but a fix is lined up for release in the first ...

Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce produces first permanent photograph of a view ... of London a paper on photogenic drawing, permanent camera obscura images made with photosensitive silver salts ...