Intro to Photography

A natural phenomenon, known as ________________ or pinhole image, can project a (reversed) image through a small opening onto an opposite surface.

• Giphantie

• Scotophors

• camera obscura

• Camera Box

Until the 16th century the camera obscura was mainly used to study ______ and __________

• Plants and Animals

• Arts and science

• Food and water

• optics and astronomy

A _______ lens in the opening and a _________ restricting the aperture gave a brighter and sharper image.

• Camera,

  Obscura

• Biconvex, Diaphragm

• Big,

  Small

• Concave,

  Diaphram

 In 1558 ___________________ advised using the camera obscura as a drawing aid,

• Giambattista della Porta

• Angelo Sala

• Johann Heinrich Schulze

• Tiphaigne de la Roche

There seem to be no historical records of any ideas even remotely resembling photography before ____.

• 1500

• 1600

• 1700

• 1800

In 1614 Angelo Sala (an Italian Doctor) noted that sunlight will turn powdered silver nitrate black

• Giambattista della Porta

• Angelo Sala

• Johann Heinrich Schulze

• Tiphaigne de la Roche

Around 1717, German polymath ___________________ accidentally discovered that a slurry of chalk and nitric acid into which some silver particles had been dissolved was darkened by sunlight.

• Giambattista della Porta

• Angelo Sala

• Johann Heinrich Schulze

• Tiphaigne de la Roche

Giphantie (1760) by the French Author 

___________________ described something quite similar to (color)

 photography

• Louis Daguerre

• Nicéphore Niépce

• Thomas Wedgwood

• Tiphaigne de la Roche

In 1777, the chemist _______________ was studying the more light-sensitive material silver chloride, and determined that light darkened it by disintegrating it into microscopic dark particles.

• Carl Wilhelm Scheele

• Tiphaigne de la Roche

• Thomas Wedgwood

• Nicéphore Niépce

Of greater potential usefulness, Scheele found that _______ dissolved the silver chloride, but not the dark particles.

• pewter

• silver chloride

• ammonia

• nitric acid