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How do film cameras take a picture?

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there taken like a normal camera

HOW ELSE WOULD THEY BE TAKEN ?

A real Answer: But very simplifiedThe film in the camera is a strip of plastic coated with light sensitive chemicals. This is called photo sensitive.

When it is colour film: it is sensitive to three colours.

When the camera allows light into the camera it does so for a very precise time and at a very precise focus.

The brightness or "amount of light" triggers the chemicals in a degree dependent on the amount.

This produces a negative. Think of this as a picture on the plastic with all the colours including black and white reversed.

The film must be "developed". This is a process where the chemicals on the film are bathed in a series of chemicals to make the image appear and make it permanent.

Then the Negative is "printed" to Photo paper. This is very much like making the negative but on paper in the size you want.

For a more detailed description there are several good articles in WIKI-Pedia

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