It all began with a simple idea. What if we one could capture what they saw in front of them and display it onto a surface or object ? Well much before the modern invention of the camera, one man in particular who went by the name of: "Alhazen (Ibn Al - Haytham)", invented what we all know nowadays as the "Pinhole Camera" (also known as the ''Camera Obscura''). This man was of great importance and provided a vast knowledge on the subject of optics. In fact in the time of approximately 1000 AD he was able to explain why images where inverted.
Although it was not "Alhazen" himself who first pondered on the idea of pinhole camera possibility, he was the first to create one. In fact this goes way back to the time before Jesus Christ (BC), when Aristotle questioned the idea that the sun could produce a circular image when its rays shone through a square hole.
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References:
Bellis,M, 2013, "History of Photography and the Camera". [online] Available at: http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm
[Accessed 22nd October, 2013]
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