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  2. Pinhole camera - Wikipedia

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    Early pinhole camera. Light enters a dark box through a small hole and creates an inverted image on the wall opposite the hole. [8]The first known description of pinhole photography is found in the 1856 book The Stereoscope by Scottish inventor David Brewster, including the description of the idea as "a camera without lenses, and with only a pin-hole".

  3. Camera obscura - Wikipedia

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    A camera obscura (pl. camerae obscurae or camera obscuras; from Latin camera obscūra 'dark chamber') [1] is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light passing through a small hole into a dark space form an image where they strike a surface, resulting in an inverted (upside down) and reversed (left to right) projection of the view outside.

  4. Archaeo-optics - Wikipedia

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    The brain reorients the image. This optical process of projecting an inverted image is known as a camera obscura (from the Latin, meaning dark room). The first pinhole/camera obscura eyes evolved about 540 million years ago on a sea mollusk, known as a nautilus, during the Cambrian period. The camera obscura principle is primordial, and life on ...

  5. Science of photography - Wikipedia

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    Light enters a dark box through a small hole and creates an inverted image on the wall opposite the hole. [2]The fundamental technology of most photography, whether digital or analog, is the camera obscura effect and its ability to transform of a three dimensional scene into a two dimensional image.

  6. Photography - Wikipedia

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    A hole in the cave wall will act as a pinhole camera and project a laterally reversed, upside down image on a piece of paper. Renaissance painters used the camera obscura which, in fact, gives the optical rendering in color that dominates Western Art. It is a box with a small hole in one side, which allows specific light rays to enter ...

  7. Camera obscura (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A camera obscura (Latin for dark chamber) is a device for projecting an image on a screen, using either a lens or pinhole. The term may refer to specific large-scale camera obscuras: Camera Obscura (San Francisco, California), at the Cliff House, San Francisco; Camera Obscura, Edinburgh, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh

  8. 12 reasons you aren't losing weight even though you're eating ...

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    Meaning: If you aren't weighing yourself at a consistent time each day, expect to see different numbers on the scale. Eating or drinking anything adds weight, even the healthy stuff.

  9. Daguerreotype - Wikipedia

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    The camera obscura (Latin for "dark chamber") in its simplest form is a naturally occurring phenomenon. [ 57 ] A broad-leaved tree in bright sunshine will provide conditions that fulfill the requirements of a pinhole camera or a camera obscura : a bright light source (the sun), the shade that the leafy canopy provides, a flat surface onto which ...