Police Photography

Forensic photography - sometimes referred to as police photography, forensic imaging or crim

Photography - is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light. Th

Photograph - is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface usually photograp

Sir John Herschel - made the word photography known to the world in a lecture before the roy
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 inver

Aristotle - in 4th century BC, described observing a partial solar eclipse in 330 BC by see

Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhazen) - an Egyptian scientist who wrote about observing a solar ec

Roger Bacon - English philosopher and Franciscan friar who in his study of optics, include

Johannes Kepler - a German mathematician and astronomer who applied the actual nam

Robert Boyle - a British scientist who, with his assistant Robert Hooke developed a port

Johann Zahn - in 1685, built the first camera obscura that was small enough for practica

Joseph Nicephore Niepce - was a french inventor

1920 - the electronic video camera tube was invented, starting a line of development tha

William Henry Fox Talbot - a British inventor

Lumiere Brothers - introduced the autochrome, the first commercially successful color p

Kodachrome - the first modern integral tripack color film, was introduced by Kodak in 19

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Camera obscura - obscura means dark or darkened chamber room, is an optical device that pr
Basic Modern Camera Parts
1. Lens - the light enters through the lens, this is
where photo process begins.
2. View Finder - is what the photographer looks
through to compose and in many cases to focus,
the picture.
3. Body - the basic most part of a camera. It is the
box that holds the film and the camera controls.
4. Shutter Release - is a button found on many
cameras used to take the picture.
5. Aperture - is a hole or an opening thorough which
light travels. The aperture affects the image's
exposure by changing the diameter of the lens
opening which control the amount of light reaching
the image sensor.
6. Image Sensor - converts the optical image to an
electronic signal.
7. Memory Card - stores all the image information.
8. LCD Screen - typically replaced the view finder.
9. Flash - provide extra light during dim, low light
situations.
10. User Control

Exposure - total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium during the proces
Film Speed - is the measure of a photographic films sensitivity to light.

Shutter Cycle - is the process of the shutter opening, closing and resetting to where it is ready

Shutter - is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time for the purpose of

Red Eye Effect - is the common appearance of red pupils in color photographs of eyes. It occu

Photographic Emulsion - is a light sensitive colloid such as gelatin, coated into a substance. In