Lesson 1.
Introduction to the photography
Activity 1. Read the next text about the history of photography.
History of Photography and the Camera
Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") the word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material.
Pinhole Camera
Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on optics in the middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera, (also called the Camera Obscura} and was able to explain why the images were upside down. The first casual reference to the optic laws that made pinhole cameras possible, was observed and noted by Aristotle around 330 BC, who questioned why the sun could make a circular image when it shined through a square hole.
Activity 2. Fill the blank space with the word in the square.
History of Photography and the Camera
Photography is a word derived from the _______ words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") the word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording ______ by the action of light, or related _______, on a sensitive material.
Pinhole Camera
Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on _______ in the middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first ____________, (also called the Camera Obscura} and was able to explain why the images were upside down. The first casual reference to the optic laws that made pinhole cameras possible, was observed and noted by Aristotle around 330 BC, who questioned why the sun could make a ___________ when it shined through a square hole.
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