Sentence examples for early camera from inspiring English sources

The designer managed to overcome his early camera shyness enough to be given an additional line at the end, Dugan recalls.

Green was originally chosen because it deterred counterfeiters, who tried to use early camera equipment to duplicate banknotes.

A lot of the early camera operators after World War II, they were ex-military guys, and that philosophy has held strong.

With some early cameras it could be more than a second.

A classic — but insufficient — explanation blames early cameras, which had long exposure times requiring subjects to sit still for several minutes.

Hockney believes that Caravaggio and many more artists used a "secret knowledge" of early cameras to perfect their almost hallucinatory understanding of the visual world.

In the silent era, filmmakers relied on simple tools like hand-painted backdrops to provide a sense of space, handicapped as they were by the ungainly size of early cameras and the stubborn chemistry of celluloid.

The relationship between painting and early cameras is not just technical: a machine only becomes useful when people start to think in ways that make it relevant to their needs.

Most persistently of all, he argues that painters in the past possessed a "secret knowledge" of early cameras that blurs the line between fine art and photography in western culture.

"Some of these early cameras made it in the luggage of British officers fighting in the First Opium War (1839-1842), which opened up some of the country's ports to international trade," she explained in an e-mail.

Baldus would also paint directly on his negatives, both to add information (cloudy skies that early cameras could not fully capture) and to edit it (painting out parts of the background to emphasize the main subject, as in an 1850 picture of the Arc de Triomphe).