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Camera Obscura as used by William Henry Fox Talbot |
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Reproduced from the National Museum of Photography,
Film and
Television collection, |
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Talbot also used a camera lucida (not illustrated) for sketching. This was a device using a lens and mirror to create a picture reflected on to thin paper supported on glass. Talbot was frustrated in his attempts to produce satisfying sketches that matched the images he saw, so at Lake Como in Italy in 1833 he determined to find a way of 'fixing' the image on paper. He announced his success in doing so six years later. |
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William Henry Fox Talbot |
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