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In
the 18th century the principle of the camera obscura becomes generally known and
even
travellers are starting to use the phenomenon. They are using the
portable version of the camera obscura just to trace the things they see during
their journeys. These "snap-shots" are pasted into their book of travels and
kept as a souvenir. If people didn't possess a camera one payed money to enter a
permanent camera-room. Here the surroundings could be seen by means of a
rotating mirror. The moving images were projected on a white table. All this was
very popular until the official invention of photography in 1839. From this
moment on there was no need to trace images anymore and the pinhole principle
was completely forgotten.
Until the most famous pinhole picture of that time
showed up, a photograph of 1890 from
George Davison, The Onion Field. This
picture won the highest price at the annual exhibition
of the Photographic
Society in London. This particular picture was the beginning of the
popularity of the pinhole camera which would last for several years.
There
were some American companies that put pinhole cameras on the market and even a
special pinhole disc that could replace the lens of a regular camera.
the 18th century the principle of the camera obscura becomes generally known and
even
travellers are starting to use the phenomenon. They are using the
portable version of the camera obscura just to trace the things they see during
their journeys. These "snap-shots" are pasted into their book of travels and
kept as a souvenir. If people didn't possess a camera one payed money to enter a
permanent camera-room. Here the surroundings could be seen by means of a
rotating mirror. The moving images were projected on a white table. All this was
very popular until the official invention of photography in 1839. From this
moment on there was no need to trace images anymore and the pinhole principle
was completely forgotten.
Until the most famous pinhole picture of that time
showed up, a photograph of 1890 from
George Davison, The Onion Field. This
picture won the highest price at the annual exhibition
of the Photographic
Society in London. This particular picture was the beginning of the
popularity of the pinhole camera which would last for several years.
There
were some American companies that put pinhole cameras on the market and even a
special pinhole disc that could replace the lens of a regular camera.