Modern cameras don't have a tiny person inside making incredibly fast and detailed drawings of what's in front of the lens, but a lot of these core ideas haven't changed in all this time.

Every year on June 29, photography enthusiasts and professionals around the world celebrate Camera Day, a day dedicated to ...

The oldest camera on view in In Focus: The Camera is a Camera Obscura from the early 1800. The most recent included in the exhibition is an Apple Quick Take 100 from 1994, one of the very first ...

To capture a projected image, innovators in the early 1800s began inserting chemically treated paper or metal plates at the back of the boxy camera obscura, and the art of photography was born.

The term 'camera obscura' means 'dark chamber', because the instrument up until the 16th century typically took the form of a closed room, the windows shuttered, with a small hole in a blind or door.

The camera lucida was first dreamed up in 1807 by William Hyde Wollaston. We don’t know if he ever made a working prototype, but we do know that by the mid-1800s, camera lucidas were part of ...

Of course, a camera obscura is really just a dark room — that’s literally what it means in Latin — with a small aperture to admit light from the outside world.

A camera obscura, literally “dark room” in Latin, is simply a dark box or room with a small hole letting in the only light. The light projects an image from the outside world on the opposite wall – ...