THE HISTORY

OF
PHOTOGRAPHY

Reported by: Joevimz Delfin

What does Photography mean?

Photography is derived from two greek words,

And the one sword is “PHOS” means light and “GRAPH”
means to draw.
So, photograph literally means to draw with light.
Photography is an art of drawing with light.

According to the dictionary of Merriam Webster,

Photography is the art or process of producing images by
the action of radiant energy and especially light on a
sensitive surface (such as film or an optical sensor).
Timeline: 1040 (5th century BC)
CAMERA OBSCURA - (from Latin, meaning “darkened room”) is a device in a
shape of abox or a room that lets the light through a small opening on one side and
projects it on the other. In this simple variant, image that is outside of the box is
projected upside-down.More complex cameras can use mirrors to project image
upwards and right-side up and they can also have lenses. Camera obscura is used as
an aid for drawing and entertainment.
Who discovered Camera Obscura?

Camera obscura is a very old device. Oldest mention of its effect is by Mozi, Chinese
philosopher and the founder of Mohism, during the 5th century BC. . He noticed that an
image from camera obscura is flipped upside down and from left to right as a result of
light’s moving in straight line.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle
The Camera Obscura
Timeline: 1826/27 FIRST KNOWN OF PHOTOGRAPH
by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Using a camera obscura fitted
with a pewter plate, Niépce
produced the first successful
photograph from nature, a view of
the courtyard of his country estate,
Gras, from an upper window of the
house. The exposure time was
about eight hours, during which the
sun moved from east to west so that
it appears to shine on both sides of
the building.
Timeline: The Daguerreotype 1833-1839
Niépce's experiment led to a collaboration with
Louis Daguerre. The result was the creation of the
daguerreotype, a forerunner of modern film.

A copper plate was coated with silver and exposed

to iodine vapor before it was exposed to light. To
create the image on the plate, the early
daguerreotypes had to be exposed to light for up to 15
minutes. This Daguerreotype was Discovered by
Louis Daguerre, in full Louis-Jacques-Mandé
Daguerre.
Timeline: 1839- THE FIRST PHOTO OF A HUMAN
The first photograph of a human appeared above in a snapshot captured
by Louis Daguerre. The exposure lasted around seven minutes and was
aimed at capturing the Boulevard du Temple, a thoroughfare in Paris,
France.
Timeline: 1839 - FIRST PORTRAIT
Before ‘selfies’ were all the rage, Robert
Cornelius set up a camera and took the
world’s first self-portrait in the back of a
business on Chestnut Street in Center City,
Philadelphia. Cornelius sat in front of the
lens for a little over a minute, before leaving
the seat and covering the lens. The now
iconic photograph was captured 170+ years
ago in 1839.
Timelline: 1840- THE CALOTYPE PROCESS

Calotype, also called talbotype, early

photographic technique invented by William
Henry Fox Talbot of Great Britain in the 1830s. In
this technique, a sheet of paper coated with silver
chloride was exposed to light in a camera obscura;
those areas hit by light became dark in tone,
yielding a negative image.
Timeline: 1840
Herschel made numerous important contributions
to photography. He made improvements in
photographic processes, particularly in inventing the
cyanotype process, which became known as
blueprints, and variations, such as the chrysotype.
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that
produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the
process well into the 20th century as a simple and
low-cost process to produce copies of drawings,
referred to as blueprints. The process uses two
chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium
Timeline: 1861- The First Color Photograph

The first color photograph was taken by the

mathematical physicist, James Clerk Maxwell.
The piece above is considered the first durable
color photograph and was unveiled by Maxwell at
a lecture in 1861. The inventor of the SLR,
Thomas Sutton, was the man who pressed the
shutter button, but Maxwell is credited with the
scientific process that made it possible. For those
having trouble identifying the image, it is a three-
color bow.
Emulsion Plates

Emulsion plates, or wet plates, were less

expensive than daguerreotypes and required only
two or three seconds of exposure time. This made
them much more suited to portrait photographs,
which was the most common use of photography at
the time. Many photographs from the Civil War were
produced on wet plates.
These wet plates used an emulsion process called
the Collodion process, rather than a simple coating
on the image plate. It was during this time that
bellows were added to cameras to help with
focusing.
Timeline: 1871
The Gelatin or Dry Plate photographic process was invented in 1871 by Dr.
Richard L Maddox. This involved the coating of glass photographic plates with
a light sensitive gelatin emulsion and allowing them to dry prior to use. This
made for a much more practical process than the wet plate process as the plate
could be transported, exposed and then processed at a later date rather than
having to coat, expose and process the plate in one sitting. The gelatin dry plate
process technique was developed and eventually led to the roll film process.
These dry plates could be stored rather than made as needed. This allowed
photographers much more freedom in taking photographs. The process also
allowed for smaller cameras that could be hand-held. As exposure times
decreased, the first camera with a mechanical shutter was developed.
*Cameras reduced in size
*Mechanical shutter
Timeline: 1888- The KODAK BEGIN
The history of Kodak starts with the
Eastman Dry Plate Company, where owner
George Eastman created single-shot sheets
of paper covered in photographic emulsion.
William Walker, who was also an expert in
photography, started working for Eastman
in 1883. The two men invented a holder for
a roll of the company's photo plates in 1885.
Timeline:1891- The KINETOSCOPE
Kinetoscope, forerunner of the motion-picture
film projector, invented by Thomas A. Edison and
William Dickson of the United States in 1891. In it,
a strip of film was passed rapidly between a lens
and an electric light bulb while the viewer peered
through a peephole. Behind the peephole was a
spinning wheel with a narrow slit that acted as a
shutter, permitting a momentary view of each of
the 46 frames passing in front of the shutter every
second. The result was a lifelike representation of
persons and objects in motion
Timeline:1949- The FIRST SLR CAMERA
Timeline: 1957 - THE FIRST DIGITAL IMAGE
The first digital photograph was taken
all the way back in 1957; that is almost 20
years before Kodak’s engineer invented the
first digital camera. The photo is a digital
scan of a shot initially taken on film. The
picture depicts Russell Kirsch’s son and
has a resolution of 176×176 – a square
photograph worthy of any Instagram
profile.
Timeline:1959- NIKON 'S FIRST SLR

The Nikon F camera, introduced

in April 1959, was Nikon's first SLR
camera. It was one of the most
advanced cameras of its day.
Although many of the concepts had
already been introduced elsewhere, it
was revolutionary in that it was the
first to combine them all in one
camera.
Timeline:1966- FIRST PHOTO ON THE MOON

The First Photograph of Earth from Moon.

The Earth was photographed from the Moon in all its glory
on August 23rd, 1966. A Lunar Orbiter traveling in the
vicinity of the Moon snapped the shot and was then
received at Robledo De Chervil in Spain. This was the
Lunar spacecraft’s 16th orbit around the Moon.
Timeline:1975- First Digital Camera

In 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson

created the first-ever digital camera. It
was built using parts of kits and
leftovers around the Kodak factory, and
an early CCD image sensor from
Fairchild in 1974. The camera was about
the size of a breadbox and it took 23
seconds to capture a single image.15
May 2019
Timeline: 2000

First phone Camera..

The first mass-market camera phone
was the J-SH04, a Sharp J-Phone model
sold in Japan in November 2000. It could
instantly transmit pictures via cell phone
telecommunication.
Timeline:2004-2006
A mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
(MILC) or simply mirrorless camera, also
called digital single lens mirrorless (DSLM), is
a photo camera featuring a single, removable
lens and a digital display. The camera does not
have a reflex mirror or optical viewfinder like a
digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera. Many
mirrorless cameras retain a mechanical
shutter. Like a DSLR, a mirrorless camera
accepts any of a series of interchangeable
lenses compatible with its lens mount.
The first digital rangefinder camera commercially
marketed was the Epson R-D1 (released in 2004).
In 2006 the second camera to hit the mirrorless market was
the Leica m8.
Timeline:2006- 111 Megapexil CCD Sensor

This was the highest resolution that time

Timeline:2008-2009

The Micro 4/3 and leica m9 full frame mirrorless cameras.

Timeline:2009-First 3D Camera with 3D printer

Fujifilm have launched the world's

first three dimensional digital imaging
system which includes the FinePix
Real 3D W1 digital camera, FinePix
Real 3D V1 picture viewer and 3D print
capability.22 Jul 2009
Timeline: 2020 and beyond..
DSLR vs. SLR Camera
SLR cameras allow expert photographers to change lenses and
choose the right lens for the given shooting situation. DSLR refers to
SLR cameras that take digital photos and the few cameras left on the
market still using film are simply called SLR cameras.
DSLR cameras are great for budding photographers because they
offer live previews and do not waste film when photographers make
mistakes. There are more DSLRs available in the market so they tend
to be cheaper. Film SLR cameras, on the other hand, offer slightly
better quality of color, tone and contrast.
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