Early cameras of the 16th and 17th century were able to project images onto paper or glass but the study of capturing, processing and printing the images took many more years. Up until the 17th century, scientists believed that light was composed basically of the 'white' that is perceived by the human eye. It took the investigate done by sublime physicist Isaac Newton to discover that light is indeed composed of a spectrum of colors. While he made a big contribution to the study of optics (that is at the core of camera advances) with this discovery, Newton did not indeed have anyone to do with camera amelioration per se.
History of the Camera
The early camera that first became a phenomenon was a slight more than a pinhole camera and can be traced back to 1558. It was called the Camera Obscura. The Camera Obscura was seen as a drawing tool for a clearer and realistic portrayal of objects. It was in the early 19th century that an invention named the Camera Lucida was introduced by Cambridge scientist William Hyde Wollaston that consisted of an optical gismo that could help an artist view a distant scene or man or object on a paper surface that he or she was using to draw. In other words the artist gets to view a superimposed image of a subject on paper and this image could be effectively used to effort to draw, trace or paint it. Both the Camera Obscura and the Camera Lucida provided an image that was temporary, which could not be lastingly captured on to paper for later reference.
Studies however continued well into the 1800's on how to indeed capture the image onto material. It was during this time, around 1822 that French researcher Joseph Nicephore Niepce, created the first picture by using paper that was coated with a chemical. The image would not stay constantly on the paper and would disappear after a short while. Even so, despite the short-lived nature of the image, the opinion of photography was born with this experiment and paved the way for supplementary study and amelioration in this field.
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