This document discusses the history and basic principles of photography. It explains that photography derives from Greek words meaning "light" and "to draw." Early forms of photography included the camera obscura, a dark box or room with a small hole that projected upside-down images. Pinhole cameras were also used, made from materials like cardboard boxes with a tiny hole, which allowed light to expose photographic paper inside to create an image. The document provides examples of simple pinhole cameras that can be made at home.

1. Photography in a box
Some ideas of how it works

2. Photography
• Photography is a word derived from the Greek
• PHOTO = light
• GRAPHEIN = to draw
• It is a method of recording images by the action of light

3. Camera obscura
• It was the first form of
photography.
• It is a dark box or room
with a little hole where
light comes in.
• Images are projected
upside-down and right to
left.

4. A camera obscura in a cardboard box.

5. A camera obscura
in a dark room

7. In the old times people
used camera obscuras for
drawing or just for
viewing, not for taking
photos

8. Pinhole photography

9. Pinhole camera
Càmera Estenopèica
• PIN
• HOLE
• The word estenopeica also comes
from the Greek
• STENO = narrow, small
• OPE = hole

10. What can we make a pinhole camera of?
Cardboard box Can

12. • A pinhole camera is completely dark except the hole.
• The hole needs to be really small.
• We stick photographic paper opposite the hole, inside the
camera
• This paper is light sensitive, so we need to put it in the
darkroom.

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