The First Photograph of Three People Together

Looking at the lifelike black-and-white image before them, all three were immensely excited. Ao Fei and Qu Bing were delighted that the experiment had finally succeeded, while Wen Nong was astonished by the results of their research.

He had genuinely been shocked. He had always known that the two of them were conducting research into optics, but he had never known what exactly they were working on. Now that he saw they had actually developed such an incredible technique, how could he not be excited?

Just as Qu Bing had said, this was a technique that could freeze time forever onto a medium—a miraculous method that could truly change the way history was recorded.

Driven by the spirit of scientific exploration and his own curiosity, Wen Nong immediately pestered the two of them for an explanation of the technique's principles.

Ao Fei, who had already taken the photograph, was in excellent spirits and did not hide anything from him. He took Wen Nong over to inspect his Photography Box, then sat down on the chair and had Wen Nong stand by the box and observe the inverted image reflected on the Ground Glass Plate.

"So this is the pinhole inversion your Optics Group has been researching? This is way too incredible!" Following Ao Fei's instructions, Wen Nong pushed and pulled the box fitted with the lens back and forth, continuously adjusting the image's size on the glass plate. Watching the inverted image enlarge and shrink at will, he could not help exclaiming in amazement.

"Then how did you get the image onto the silver plate?" Wen Nong continued asking.

"It was Qu Bing's idea. A few days ago, I showed him the pinhole inversion, and he asked whether we could preserve the image. I'd wanted to do that for a