(Incidentally, if you want to learn more about film cameras and traditional photography, It's no wonder thatĭigital photography has become very popular-because it solves Several days for your film to be developed and your prints (theįinished photographs) returned to you. Simply to "finish off the film." Often, you have to wait Most people have found themselves wasting photographs If you want to take only one or two photographs, all of this can be a bit ofĪ nuisance. Negatives, it uses them to make prints (finished versions) of your Vice-versa and all the colors look weird too because the negative In a negative, the black areas look light and Of "negative" pictures-ghostly reverse versions of
This process turns the film into a series The machine opens up the filmĬontainer, pulls out the film, and dips it in various other chemicals Usually, this involves placing the film into a hugeĪutomated developing machine. Have to take it to a drugstore (chemist's) to have itĭeveloped. The chemicals on the film, thus storing the picture in front of you. The light causes reactions to take place in Light to enter through the lens (a thick piece of Hole (the aperture) open briefly at the front of the camera, allowing
This operates a mechanism called the shutter, which makes a When you want to take a photograph with a film camera, you have to press aīutton. Light-proof plastic cylinder-the thing you put in your camera. To stop light spoiling the film, it is wrapped up inside a tough, Of flexible plastic coated with special chemicals (based on compounds of silver) Without one vital piece of equipment: a film. If you have an old-style camera, you'll know that it's useless It's all very 19th-century compared to digital photography! Light enter from the lens and expose the film. Spool on the left, passing in front of the lens on the way. The film loads in a spool on the right and winds across to another Photo: An old-style film camera from the late