Police Photography Reviewer Board Exam Criminalistics Anatomies Criminology Forensic photography - sometimes referred to as police photography, forensic imaging or crime scene photography. - is the art of producing an accurate reproduction f a crime scene or an accident using photography for the benefit of a court or to aid in an investigation. Photography - is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light. The word photography was derived from the Greek word phos - light and graphe - drawing. Photograph - is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface usually photographic film or electronic imager. Sir John Herschel - made the word photography known to the world in a lecture before the royal society of London on 1839. Camera - is a device that records and stores images. History of camera Mo Ti - 5th century BC Chinese philosopher who noted that a pin hole can form an inverted and focused image when light passes through the hole and into a dark area. He is the first recorded person to have exploited this phenomenon to trace the inverted image to create a picture. Aristotle - in 4th century BC, described observing a partial solar eclipse in 330 BC by seeing the image of the sun projected through the small spaces between the leaves of the tree. Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhazen) - an Egyptian scientist who wrote about observing a solar eclipse through a pin hole and he described how a sharper image could be produced by making the opening of the pin hole smaller. Roger Bacon - English philosopher and Franciscan friar who in his study of optics, included a discussion of the physiology of eyesight, the anatomy of the eyes and brain and considered light, distance, position, size, direct vision, reflected vision and refraction, mirrors and lenses. Johannes Kepler - a German mathematician and astronomer who applied the actual name of camera obscura and later added a lens and made the apparatus transportable in the form of a tent. Robert Boyle - a British scientist who, with his assistant Robert Hooke developed a portable camera in the 1660. Johann Zahn - in 1685, built the first camera obscura that was small enough for practical use as a portable drawing aid because the only way to preserve the images produced by the camera was to manually trace them. Joseph Nicephore Niepce - was a french inventor who is noted for producing the first known photographs in 1825 by using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris.
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