The Inventor of The Camera.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 17 July 1902, Page 29

The Inventor of The Camera.

Where\ei; one goes he is sure to see the man or woman with the kodak capturing bits of .scenery or homes of famous people for his collection of views. It ib generally thought that tho cameia is a new invention, but it was really in use as far back as the middle of iho sixtoenth century, when an Italian named Battista PorIn, liimlc iim> of » dark room into which light was admitted through a small hole in on© corner The rays made a brilliant picture on the opposite wall, where one could see the natural objects outside reproduced as in a lookingglass, although thoy were upside down, as your picture is in the lens of your camera when the photographer is posing you, and a.s it is when the polito son of Erin asked ' My dear sir, wouldn't it be easien for you to take my picture if I stood on my head "> ' l'orta finally improved hi.s littlo dark room by the use of minrors and lenses until he had a real camera obscura , and this unknown Italian may be called the inventor of photography.