Reflection Activity: History of Photography

Select the best description of the camera obscura that Philosopher Mozi talked about.

• Darkened room where sunlight entered through the roof and an image was projected onto the walls.

• Darkened room, box or tent where sunlight entered through a "pinhole" and an inverted picture of the outside world was projected onto a wall.

• A cave where to watch eclipses and other solar events through a "pinhole".

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is known for

• Hetography, a process to reflect light at a long distance.

• Bitumen of Judea, a photographic process that allowed for the duplication of images.

• the first photograph, a heliograph that was "fixed" using a type of asphalt called Bitumen of Judea.

Thomas Wedgewood used paper and _________ coated with silver nitrate to capture ____________.

• brown leather, shadows

• white silk, crisp images

• white leather, silhouettes

The first exposure by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took about _______.

• 3 hours

• 8 hours

• 30 seconds

The advantage that Calotype had over Daguerreotype was

• that it produced a negative from which multiple positives could be made.

• that the image was opaque.

• that it produced a positive from which multiple negatives could be made.

The Dycam Model 1 is the first digital camera to actually go on sale in the US. It was considered full digital because

• it used an electronic image sensor.

• it stored pictures digitally.

• it connected to the pc for download.

• it did all of the above.

In 1948, Polaroid introduced the following:

• paper-based photos and instant image development

• rolls of film for development

• negatives

This man introduced the first Kodak camera to the masses in 1888.

• James Clerk Maxwell

• George Eastman

• Eadweard Muybridge

The first color photograph was created by this man in 1861.

• James Clerk Maxwell

• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

• Johann Zahn

The first example of chronophotography, the method to photographically record the passing of time, was credited to Eadweard Muybridge, and it formed an important step in the development of

• photography

• motion pictures

• time lapse video