Outdoor light reflects off your dog, bouncing into the camera, through the lens and onto a mirror. Finally, the light passes through the eyepiece and into your eye. This allows you to see the image exactly as it will appear on film. As you hold the camera to your eye, you wait for just the right moment. Your dog stops for just a moment and snap! You've got your shot. When you press the button on a camera, the mirror flips out of the way. Light then passes onto the back of the camera where it hits photographic film and starts a chemical reaction.
When you click the button, you instantaneously record the reflected light off objects in the camera's field of view. Though you probably can't tell, film consists of a thin sheet of plastic coated with tiny silver crystals in a gelatin. The crystals react to light that passes through the camera and onto the film. Once you've captured your photo, it's time to develop the film in a darkroom. The development process involves dipping the film in several chemicals.
If you have ever held developed film up to the light, you may notice that something looks strange. Developed film gives you a negative image! This means dark objects will look light and light objects will look dark. When it's time to print your photo, you must shine a light through the negative film. This creates a shadow on special photosensitive paper, leaving an image that is the opposite of the negative — a positive print! At last you have your photograph. I scream, you scream Ready to make a first impression?
Even without a camera, you can make a photo by using light from indoor lamps or even the rays of the sun. Experiment by placing different objects on special photosensitive paper to find out what kinds of interesting and beautiful patterns you can capture on your solar-powered prints. Visit Sunprint. Since you're talking about a screen, I'm assuming you're talking about a digital camera as opposed to a film camera, what this article describes. Electronics stop working when they come in contact with water because of particles dissolved in the water called ions.
Those particles mess up electricity, causing it to go places it's not supposed to. Basically, water screws up electronics. The screen is probably blue because it's broken. Oh, and by the way, water isn't blue. It appears that way because of phenomena having to do with light.
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Join the Discussion. Rachel66 Oct 30, Hi, this really helped. One problem though, i dropped the camera in the pool when i was swimming and the whole screen is blue? Is it because its filled with water? Thanks for this information.
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Today, film photography is rare. But holding all those physical photos in my hands and running my finger along the edges of the negatives, I get curious. How does photographic film actually work? The name gives it away. When the shutter of a camera opens, it allows light to travel through the lens and shine onto the film. According to the University of Houston College of Technology , photographic film is made of four layers: the protective coating, emulsion, base, and anti-halation backing.
In black and white film there is one emulsion while in color, there are several, ranging from three to twenty in more advanced types of film, each which react differently to the different colors of light. When light hits the film, the silver halide crystals absorb the light and are converted to metallic silver.
These exposed crystals turn to black, representing the areas with the most light. The areas of the film that are not exposed to as much light do not convert to metallic silver, and remain light. Therefore, this latent image of light and dark areas on the film is an inverse reflection of the real thing — the highlights are dark and the shadows are light.
Film rolled in canisters, as it is most commonly used, is more efficient than sheet film single sheets best associated with Polaroid cameras because it allows a photographer to shoot multiple frames.
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