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 art and science of capturing moments. From the earliest days of the ...

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.

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.

Obscura, the iPhone camera app for pro users, has released a new major version called Obscura 4 with support for the iPad.It also brings new features, such as dual reticule mode to have different ...