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Muhammad Akbar
WIFI Solar Camera

Photographs made in the early days were less sensitive to light and were printed by simple superpositions ("Contact Prints"). Photographers could make enlargements of glass negatives with the solar camera enlarger. The exposure time required to make such copies from negatives increases with increasing enlargement. Therefore, photographers used the strongest light source available at the time: the Sun.


At first, solar cameras were freestanding. They were based on photo-taking cameras, but the relative positions of the lens and negative were reversed so that sunlight shines through the glass plate onto photo-sensitive papers or an emulsion on another substrate (glass, fabric. leather. Inside the instrument. They could be mounted on a stand and swiveled to face the Sun. Later, they were integrated into a darkroom structure with an opening to let in light.


Reports of near-death from fires started by a late version, which was built into a darkroom and left open to the full sun, can help us gauge the intensity and heat of the light and the heat they transmit and concentrate through condensers. Jacob Worthy had to install water troughs in order to cool the large version of his device.


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The design of the solar camera was made possible by a number of inventors, photographers, and businesses that specialize in photography.


The solar microscope, which was used in experiments using photosensitive silver nitrate in the making of the first photographic enlargements, was an antecedent. Davy published their discoveries in June 1802 in his An Account of the Method of Copying Paintings upon glass, and of Making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver. T. Wedgwood Esq. invented it. With Observations by H. Davy, the first issue of the Journals of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.


John Towler wrote in 1864 that "the appendages to a solar camera and to a solar microscope are facsimiles; but the sun microscope existed before photography was elicited out of chaos; therefore, the solar camera is merely an imitation of its antecedent; patentees of this instrument can not claim originality of design; their only claim is the application of the instrument for photography.


Baltimore photographer, David Acheson Woodward, was also a professor of drawing at The Government School of Design. His 1857 solar-enlarging camera, which was an evolution of a solar microscope, could produce life-size prints from quarter-plate and half-plate negatives. It was exposed for approximately forty-five minutes. The Liverpool Mercury reported that his photographs were "universally admired" during his trip to England to market and exhibit his device. The largest print was enlarged from 6 1/2 in [16.5 cm] to 3 feet [91.5 cm] but the best clarity and accuracy were retained. "[9] His apparatus came in two sizes, one with a 9-inch diameter and the other with a 5 in. (22.8cm) Condenser for half plates that cost PS21 (PS2,845.61 / $US3,760.29 2020). The smaller one had a 5in. (12.7 cm) condenser for quarter-plates costing PS13. Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch, a photo-microscopist, improved Woodward's design by adding a second condenser in 1860.

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