Pin Hole Cameras
In the middle ages a man called Alhazen created the first Pin Hole Camera which was also called the camera obscura and he was also able to explain why the pictures were upside down (light travels in a straight line). The first photograph was taken on a summers day in 1827 by Joeseph Nicephore Niepce. Before Niepce took a photographic image, people used the camera obscura for drawing purposes. Niepce placed an engraving onto a metal plate coated in bitumen, and then exposed it to light. When Niepce put the metal into some chemicals a photo appeared, this process took 8 hours, in order to create a good photo. In 1982 Louis Daguerre formed a partnership with Joeseph Nicephore Niepce to improve the process that Niecpe had developed. In 1839 after years of experiments and Niepes death, Daguerre developed an effective method of photography naming it after himself - the daguerreotype.
In 1839, Daguerre and Niepce's son sold the rights for the daguerreotype to the French government and published a booklet to the public describing the process of how to use a Pin Hole Camera.
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