History of Photography

The First Photograph(1826)

The First Photograph, or more
specifically, the earliest
known surviving photograph
made in a camera, was taken
by Joseph Nicephorus Niepce
in 1826 or 1827. The image
depicts the view from an
upstairs window at Niepce's
estate, Le Gras, in the
Burgundy region of France.
 Origins Of The Term
Photography is "Photography(1839)
the science, art, application
and practice of creating
durable images by
recording light or
other electromagnetic
radiation, either electronically
by means of an image sensor,
or chemically by means of a
light-sensitive material such
as photographic film.
Calotype or talbotype is an early
photographic process introduced in
Calotype 1841
1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot,
using paper coated with silver
iodide.
Wet-collodion process, also
called collodion process , early
Wet collodion process (1851)
photographic technique invented by
Englishman Frederick Scott
Archer in 1851. The process
involved adding a soluble iodide to
a solution of collodion (cellulose
nitrate) and coating a glass plate
with the mixture. In the darkroom
the plate was immersed in a
solution of silver nitrate to
form silver iodide. The plate, still
wet, was exposed in the camera. It
was then developed by pouring a
solution of pyro Gallic acid over it
and was fixed with a strong solution
of sodium thiosulfate, for
which potassium cyanide was later
substituted.
When photography was Color Photography(1855)
invented in 1855, it was a
black-and-white medium, and
it remained that way for
almost one hundred years.
Photography then was a
fragile, cumbersome, and
expensive process. In order to
practice, photographers
needed a lot of extra money
and time, or a sponsor.
The daguerreotype process was the
first publicly available photographic
(Daguerreotype 1860)
process, and for nearly twenty years
it was the one most commonly
used.
Invented by Louis-Jacques-Mand
Daguerre and introduced worldwide
in 1839, daguerreotype was almost
completely superseded by 1860
with new, less expensive processes
yielding more readily viewable
images. During the past few
decades, there has been a small
revival of daguerreotype among
photographers interested in making
artistic use of early photographic
processes.
Dry plate, also known Dry plate (1879)
as gelatin process, is an
improved type
of photographic plate. It was
invented by Dr. Richard L.
Maddox in 1871, and by 1879
it was so well introduced that
the first dry plate factory had
been established. With much
of the complex chemistry
work centralized into a
factory, the new process
simplified the work
of photographers, allowing
them to expand their
business.
This Original Kodak camera, introduced
by George Eastman, placed the power Kodak Roll Film Camera(1888)
of photography in the hands of anyone
who could press a button. Unlike earlier
cameras that used a glass-plate negative
for each exposure, the Kodak came
preloaded with a 100-exposure roll of
flexible film. After finishing the roll, the
consumer mailed the camera back to
the factory to have the prints made. In
capturing everyday moments and
memories, the Kodak's distinctive
circular snapshots defined a new style
of photography--informal, personal, and
fun. George Eastman invented flexible
roll film and in 1888 introduced the
Kodak camera shown to use this film.
 Kodachrome Film (early 1935)
The Kodachrome process in
which three emulsions, each
sensitive to a primary color,
are coated on a single film
base was the brainchild of
Leopold Godowsky Jr. and
Leopold Mannes, two
musicians turned scientists
who worked at Kodak's
research facility in Rochester,
N.Y. Disappointed by the poor
quality of a "color" movie
they saw in 1916, the two
Leopold's spent years
perfecting their technique,
which Kodak first utilized in
1935 in 16-mm movie film.
The instant camera is a type of camera which
uses self-developing film to create a Polaroid Instant Photography(1948)
chemically developed print shortly after
taking the picture. Polaroid
Corporation pioneered (and patented)
consumer friendly instant cameras and film,
and were followed by various other
manufacturers.
The invention of commercially viable instant
cameras which were easy to use is generally
credited to American scientist Edwin Land,
who unveiled the first commercial instant
camera, the model 95 Land Camera, in 1948,
a year after unveiling instant film in New York
City. The earliest instant camera, which
consisted of a camera and portable wet
darkroom in a single compartment, was
invented in 1923 by Samuel Sharrock.
If youre a digital photography buff,
heres some required trivia
Frist digital camera (1975)
knowledge: what you see above is a
photograph of the first digital
camera ever built. It was created in
December 1975 by an engineer at
Eastman Kodak named Steve
Sassoon, now regarded as the
inventor of the digital camera. In a
Kodak blog post written in 2007,
Sassoon explains how it was
constructed.
2016 welcomed a barrage of new cameras
equipped with 4K video recording, and now Most modern camera (2016)
almost every major camera manufacturer
has implemented 4K shooting somewhere in
their lines.
Perhaps most impressively, the technology
has been successfully stretched over models
of all billings. So, whether youve only got a
few hundred pounds to spend or you're
willing to stretch to a handsome four-figure
sum, its likely you can afford a camera with
the technology on board.
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