How does photography work?
Johnny's Leica MP that we used as a prop (Steve Huff Photo)How does a camera work? (Tech, How Stuff Works)When were cameras invented? It depends...400BC if you count the ancient Chinese 'camera obscura' (Wikipedia)The camera obscura...who needs TV? (Wikipedia)The first proper photograph apparently took 8 hours to expose, credited to Joseph Nicephore Niépce, 1820s (University of California, Santa Barbara)130-year-old plate camera captures pictures of modern Britain (but you must stand still for 15 minutes) (Daily Mail Australia)How the human eye works: It's a 'camera-type eye' (livescience)Why do your pupils get bigger in the dark? (Wonderopolis)What is a lens? (Explain That Stuff!)Cameras, lenses & how photography works (How-To Geek)Understanding camera lenses (Cambridge in Colour)What is exposure? (Cambridge in Colour)Squinting helps you focus - it narrows the 'aperture' of your eye (Wired)What is an aperture? (Wikipedia)A dicussion about wide aperture & unfocused light rays (Photography StackExchange)Principal focal length (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University)Understanding focal length (Nikon)Depth of field: How 'deep' is the amount of stuff that's in focus (Cambridge in Colour)As this photo of Elon Musk shows, a professional portrait usually focuses on the face & blurs the background (Feedoxy)"A lens typically has a set of marked 'f-stops' that the f-number can be set to" (Wikipedia)Pic: As your f-number increases, your aperture gets smaller & less light gets in (Wikipedia)Free f-stop chart (Tech Radar)Pic: Example of a Leica camera showing the f-stops on the lens, 2.4, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11 (Leicaphilia)Super groovy pinhole glasses that claim to strengthen your eyes (HealthTap)Diagram of light rays going through a wide & narrow aperture (Photography Life)Understanding shutter speed: A beginner's guide (Photography Life)Pic: Example of a shutter speed dial on a film camera (Roger & Frances)Pic: This is what Johnny's 'curtain shutter' looks like - the bit that reveals the 35 mm film segment (photo.net)What is a camera shutter? (Wikipedia)A history of shutter types (Early Photography)What is 35 mm film? (Wikipedia)F1.0 lenses are super expensive & rare - this is what the photos look like...kinda nice hey? (Fstoppers)What is a prime lens? i.e. they don't zoom (B&H)Why are some lenses so expensive? (Photography Life)What is infinity focus? (School of Digital Photography)Who killed infinity focus? (B&H)The Man Who Knew Infinity (IMDb)The amazing mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Wikipedia)Sally Gunnell (Wikipedia)Uluru (Wikipedia)Photographs of ocean waves captured with a long lens & slow shutter (PetaPixel)The secret to photographing hummingbirds (B&H)Slow motion footage of bullets going through stuff (DrDaveBilliards, YouTube)Femto-photography: Visualising photons in motion at a trillion frames per second (MIT)Film speed is a measure of its sensitivity to light (Wikipedia)ISO has been the standard for speed/sensitivity since 1974 (Wikipedia)How to make & use a pinhole camera (Kodak)Some thoughts on why people never smiled in old photos (Vox)How film works: Black & white vs colour (Kodak)What is slide film? (I Still Shoot Film)Some lovely slide films shot on Fuji Velvia (I Still Shoot Film)Some lovely slide films shot on Fuji Provia (I Still Shoot Film)Some lovely slide films shot on Kodak Ektachrome (I Still Shoot Film)A handy PDF guide on how to develop black & white film yourself (Ilford)How does photographic paper work? (Wikipedia)How do digital cameras work? (Tech, How Stuff Works)Digital camera sensors: Backs up Johnny's 'buckets of photons' analogy (Cambridge in Colour)Why more megapixels isn't always better (Gizmodo)Baaaaaall pit! (Kids'nShape)The 72 ppi web resolution myth (Photoshop Essentials)The iPhone 6S has a 12 megapixel camera (Apple)Introduction to medium format photography (I Still Shoot Film)Why medium format is so gorgeous (Reframe, Gizmodo)Phase One medium format digital cameras: May set you back up to $55K (CNET)Polaroid cameras (Polaroid Australia)How does a Polaroid camera work? (Tech in our everyday life)The Impossible Project: "Reinventing instant film from scratch" (IMPOSSIBLE)Guy Ritchie (bio.)Pic: Thingy that magnifies negatives so you can see what will be in your photo if you develop it (eBay)Pic: Nessie (CNN)Marked up photos show how iconic prints were edited in the darkroom (PetaPixel)Old timey flash bulbs (Camerapedia)ISO: How high can you go? Apparently up to 409,600 these days! (DIGITALPhotoPro)Common slide film seems to be around 50 or 100 ISO, but there's mention of higher numbers (120 Studio)Old timey photographic plates had very low ISO numbers: This example is 5 (Fstoppers)Daguerreotype: "The first publicly announced photographic process" (Wikipedia)Old timey photographic plates (Wikipedia)Places that still offer film processing in Melbourne (urbanlight)Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold)
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