When snapping digital photos with our cameras and phones, it’s easy to forget what’s actually happening inside to get the light from your subject into the camera, and then up on its way to Instagram.
Although it is a 'camera' with a history of about 200 years, its structure and functions are very complicated. Photographer Bartos Chehanovsky explains in detail how such a camera works using a 3D ...
Most readers will have some idea of how a camera works, with a lens placed in front of a piece of film or an electronic sensor, and the distance between the two adjusted until the images is in focus.