360 likes | 495 Views
Photography from the Greek Photos: Light Graphe: Draw. It all starts with light… and ends with light. 17 th Century Sketch of a Camera Obscura. Camera Obscura from the Latin: “ Dark Room ”. Mozi knew it first (China c400 BC).
E N D
Camera Obscurafrom the Latin: “Dark Room” Mozi knew it first (China c400 BC) Ibn al-Haytham knew it, clearly described it and actually made one (Arabia c1000 AD) Aristotle knew it (Greek c350 BC)
Thought to be first permanant photograph: View from the Window at Le Gras (France) By Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1826
Boulevard du Temple, Paris By Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839
The Crystal Palace at The Great Exhibition, London by Philip Henry Delamotte, 1854
Roger Fenton, early war photographer (Crimean War) 1819-1869
Speeds faster than 1 second are fractions of a second and most cameras display them without the numerator. For example, 1/2 second is displayed as 2. Speeds of 1 second or slower are whole seconds and many cameras indicate them with quotation or inch marks ("). For example, 2 seconds is displayed as 2".
Standard Shutter Speeds: 1/4 1/8 1/15 1/30 1/60 1/125 1/250 1/500 1/1000 Standard f-stops: 1.4 2.0 2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16 22 Shutter Speed 1/8 1/15 1/30 1/60 1/125 1/250 1/500 1/1000 f/stop f/32 f/22 f/16 f/11 f/8 f/5.6 f/4 f/2.8