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==History==

==History==

[[Image:Giroux camera 1839.jpg|right||200px|thumb|Alphonse Giroux's Dagerrotype camera, 1839.]]

[[Image:Giroux camera 1839.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Alphonse Giroux's Dagerrotype camera, 1839.]]

[[File:Kodak Brownie cameras.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, New York) Brownie cameras, (''l-r'') Model 2, 1901, Model 3, 1908]]

Arguably the first camera of any kind is the ''camera obscura'', a Latin term meaning "dark chamber".  In its original form the ''camera obscura'' was either a room or a box; a pin hole on one side allowed light to enter, and the laws of optics would transmit the image of whatever was outside to the interior, where it would be projected in true color on the opposite wall, albeit upside-down.  About 400 B.C. a Chinese philosopher named Mo-Ti made the first mention of the ''camera obscura'' in history.<ref>http://www.obscurajournal.com/history.php</ref>  This was followed by unrelated experiments done by [[Aristotle]] (Greece, 384-322 BC) and Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (Egypt, c.965 - 1039), who both recognized the optical qualities of the device; by 1544 Dutch scientist Reinerus Gemma-Frisius safely used it to observe a solar eclipse.<ref>http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html</ref>  A convex lens was first placed on the opening about 1644, at which point it became a drawing aid for artists and an astronomical device, in addition to its attraction as a public curiosity which lasted to the end of the 19th century.   

Arguably the first camera of any kind is the ''camera obscura'', a Latin term meaning "dark chamber".  In its original form the ''camera obscura'' was either a room or a box; a pin hole on one side allowed light to enter, and the laws of optics would transmit the image of whatever was outside to the interior, where it would be projected in true color on the opposite wall, albeit upside-down.  About 400 B.C. a Chinese philosopher named Mo-Ti made the first mention of the ''camera obscura'' in history.<ref>http://www.obscurajournal.com/history.php</ref>  This was followed by unrelated experiments done by [[Aristotle]] (Greece, 384-322 BC) and Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (Egypt, c.965 - 1039), who both recognized the optical qualities of the device; by 1544 Dutch scientist Reinerus Gemma-Frisius safely used it to observe a solar eclipse.<ref>http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html</ref>  A convex lens was first placed on the opening about 1644, at which point it became a drawing aid for artists and an astronomical device, in addition to its attraction as a public curiosity which lasted to the end of the 19th century.