I SAY LENS-YOU SAY PINHOLE,

LONG BEFORE THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE CAMERA OBSCURA AFFORDED THE VIEWER A TWO DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF THE THREE DIMENSIONAL WORLD. This primitive device, was simply a darkened room or tent with a tiny pinhole in one wall that projected an upside down image of a scene onto the opposite wall, A huge leap forward in technology was made in the year 1558 when, in his treatise entitled NATURAL LIGHT, Giovanni Battista della Porta described the process by which an optical lens could be used in place of the pinhole to create a far superior image. It would, however, take four more centuries before true photography would take its place on the world stage. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY