Camera Obscura

as used by

William Henry Fox Talbot

Camera Obscura as used by William Henry Fox Talbot for sketching in 1833.

©  Reproduced from the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television collection,
by courtesy of the Science and Society Picture Library.

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.

 

 

William Henry Fox Talbot

Discovery of Photography

Life in England

Connections with Edinbrugh

Correspondence

Photos, Sketches and Engravings

Pencil of Nature

 

 

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