An ebook Guide to Free Camera Manuals

All camera needs a light-sensitive element that records the image somehow coming from the goal. This support is normally one of the following:

* A film, a medium composed mainly of an emulsion of gelatin and silver halide crystals (usually chloride, silver iodide or bromide) which decompose to receive a certain amount of electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength, forming a germ of metallic silver barely visible. This is the most common support in chemical photography.