How Does a Camera Work?
At the most basic level, digital cameras today and the cameras of the past share the same basic structure - they are dark containers with a hole in one side to let in light. Can you identify where the hole/lens on a contemporary or smartphone camera is? Today, we have created our own very basic cameras out of materials you can find around your house! They are called pinhole cameras because the hole to let in the light will be the size of the tip of a pin. This activity has been adapted from Houston Center for Photography.
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Solis deliquium Anno Christo 1544. Die 24. Januarij Lovanij
Original drawing by Leonardo DaVinci