Pinhole Camera Can With Film: The Ermanox Camera was soon replaced by the mo Flexible 35mm film camera, which had the advantage th it was smaller and enabled the photographer to tal thirty-six negatives in rapid succession on a single loai ing of inexpensive standard motion-picture film. Ti first Camera of this type to become popular with amateu and professionals alike was the Leica, designed just b fore World War I by Oskar Barnack, a mechanic in tl experimental workshop of the optical firm of E.
The use of the press Camera with cut film is important in news coverage because you often send in negatives, sometimes undeveloped, for fast processing in the newspaper's own darkroom. Most such darkrooms are equipped to handle only cut film with any efficiency. In the case of features, you can count on making your own prints in your own darkroom, and you can produce them in any way you see fit with the Camera you like best. This might influence you to use a twin-lens reflex camera, the favorite tool of the magazine photographers, rather than a press camera. An Automatic Rolleiflex, equipped with flash, is just about the ideal all-around picture taking device for journalistic purposes.
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Alberti's window can be duplicated by the image of a Camera when the light rays passing through the pinhole Camera can with film are received on a vertical plane. The first description of the Camera obscura as an aid to the draftsman was made by Giovanni Battista della Porta in his book Natural Magic (15 5 3) ? Fifteen years later Daniello Barbaro, professor at the University of Padua and author of a treatise on perspective, showed that a more brilliant image could be produced by substituting a lens for the pin-hole:
Close all the shutters and doors until no light enters the Camera except through the lens, and opposite hold a sheet of paper, which you move forward and backward until the scene appears in sharpest detail.
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