Demonstrations

Camera

Code Number :	6A70.30
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Condition :	Good
Principle :	Image Formation, Focal Lengths, Stops.
Area of Study :	Optics
Equipment :	Box Camera's, Polaroid Camera's.
Procedure :	All the elements on the box camera's still work. Polaroid pictures can still be taken with the camera not shown in the pictures. We also have some single reflex Pentax camera's that may be used for demonstration.

References

John Carlslon, "The Kodak One-Time-Use Flash Camera", TPT, Vol. 42, # 6, Sept. 2004, p. 375.

Mark L. Biermann and Lois A. A. Biermann, "When the f / # is Not the f / #", TPT, Vol. 34, # 5, May 1996, p. 312.

Loren M. Winters, "Observations Through a Moving Slot", TPT, Vol. 32, # 6, Sept. 1994, p. 376.

Richard L. Childers, "A Photographer's Rule-of-Thumb", TPT, Vol. 29, # 5, May 1991, p. 292.

Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Photography in the Classroom", TPT, Vol. 28, # 3, Mar. 1990, p. 148.

Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "The Camera Lucida", TPT, Vol. 27, # 1, Jan. 1989, p. 48.

Walter Connolly, "The Sloooow Camera", TPT, Vol. 26, # 9, Dec, 1988, p. 581.

John F. Koser, "A Laboratory Activity in Geometric Optics Using a 35-mm Single Lens Reflex Camera", TPT, Vol. 25, # 7, Oct. 1987, p. 427.

H. Richard Crane, "Automatically Focusing Cameras", TPT, Vol. 22, # 9, Dec. 1984, p. 600 - 601.

Richard L. Childers, "Thin Lens Photographs", TPT, Vol. 21, # 7, Oct. 1983, p. 465.

Michael J. Ruiz, "Camera Optics", TPT, Vol. 20, # 6, Sept. 1982, p. 372 - 380.

E. Scott Barr, "Image from a Pinhole", TPT, Vol. 19, # 3, Mar. 1981, p. 154.

Reuben E. Alley, Jr., "The Camera Obscura in Science and Art", TPT, Vol. 18, # 9, Dec. 1980, p. 632.

Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "The Camera", TPT, Vol. 16, # 3, March, 1978, p. 162.

Isaac Asimov, "The Invention of the Devil", Science, p. 125

"Picture Credits", The Truth about History, Readers Digest, ISBN 0-7621-0523-2, p. 263.

T. D. Rossing, C. J. Chiaverina, "10.2, Cameras", Light Science, Physics and Visual Arts, p. 227.

T. D. Rossing, C. J. Chiaverina, "Home and Classroom Demonstartion", Light Science, Physics and Visual Arts, p. 243.

T. D. Rossing, C. J. Chiaverina, "Experiment 10.1. Exploring A Single Use Camera With Built-In Flash", Light Science, Physics and Visual Arts, p. 418.

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