THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

THE BEGINNING 1816

Nicephore Niepce made the first negative photograph in 1816 he made camera images on paper which was coated in silver chloride but had trouble stopping the images darkening permanently whenever these images were exposed to light.

1822

 Nicephore Niepce after giving up on his silver halide problem moved over to bitumen of Judea (natural asphalt) onto metal and glass this created the worlds first know permanent photograph that would not disappear when exposed to light.

 

1826 

Nicephore Niepce made what is now known as the earliest photograph from

nature it took him a minimum of eight hours of camera exposure and possibly a

few days.

 

1826-1833

 Nicephore Niepce stopped working in his photography work as he was dyeing

and passed in 1833.(The first picture he took notice that it took so long the suns light is on all the

photograph click to enlarge)

THE DAGUERRE PROCESS1839

Louise Daguerre introduces his daguerreotype process, which makes very detailed permanent photographs on silver-plated sheets of copper. The time took several minuets until he made adjustments and it only took him seconds for a photograph it didn’t take long until the world knew is process. At the same time Henry fox Talbot made a working process but it didn’t catch on due to Daguerre’s being quicker and more detailed.

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NEGATIVE PROCESS TO COLOUR

In 1841 Henry fox Talbot introduced his patented calotype paper negative process and improved version of his old one which has an earlier process which has a great big difference and needs less exposure time.

Seven years later 1848 Edmond Becquerel made the worlds very first full colour photographs but they had a chance of disappearing while looking at them and took the exposure time from hours to days.

In 1854 André Adolphe Eugene disderi uses a camera which was fitted with multiple lenses that could photograph eight different poses on one large negative. After printing on albumen paper, the images are cut apart and glued to card size amounts.

ADDICTIVE COLOUR AND MOVEMENTJames Clerk Maxwell presented a projected addictive colour photograph. It uses separate black and white photographs taken and projected through red, green and blue color filters. The projected image is temporary but the set of three ‘colour separations is the first durable colour photograph.

Eadweard Muybridge used a row of cameras and took pictures of a man and horse galloping each picture is taken in sufficiently rapid sequence and would make up a picture that looks like a short but real movie that could be used by a zoetrope. It is thanks to this we knew at the time how a horse really moves.

The zoetrope spins and you look through a small hole and gives the illusion of movement.

1888 MIRACLESIn 1888 after a long wait the public gets a camera that I easy to use and is made for the general public and not just professional photographers who know what there doing. It is known for starting off the camera world we have now as it was getting easier and easier for people to take photographs.

Louis Le Prince makes the worlds first known motion picture on film to have ever been made and revolutionized cameras. Round hay garden scene is the footage it is only a few seconds long but is known as the first motion scene all thanks to prince.

1900-1902 PHOTOGRAPHS AROUND THE WORLDKodak introduces another camera available to anyone in the world as it is another camera made for the average man. It was named the brownie camera known for being inexpensive making it easy to access.

In 1902 Arthur Korn discovered and made a way for us to send photographs around to anywhere in the world with a receivable end.

1907-1914 AUTOCHROMEIn 1907 The Autochrome plate became very quickly the worlds first most successful and easiest way at the time to be able to make your own photographs with ease. Though it did make things look a bit unrealistic as the picture shows.

In 1914 the worlds very first known dramatic movie in colour was presented all throughout the world which reinvented film completely.

1923 TO 1935

In 1923 a man by the name of Harold Edgerton invents the xenon flash lamp which is known for strobe photography which is still used to this day.

In 1935 Becky sharp had made the first feature film made in full colour “three strip” version of Technicolor is released.

1939 TO 1947In 1939 the view master was created and its reel of seven small stereoscopic image pairs on kodachrome film are introduced it is thanks to th4e help of this we now have things like 3d movies or even better 3d televisions.

Later in 1947 Dennis Gabor invented holography it is a technique

which makes 3rd dimensional images appear right in front of the

audience and cannot be touched but shows a 3d image which

cant be touched as it is not in a physical form.

1949-1957During 1949 the contax s camera is introduce the first 35mm SLR camera with a Pena prism eye level view finder.

Later in 1957 the first digital computer acquisition of scanned photographs which meant we could now scan them to computers and people could keep them safe or have extra copies and print of more for others.

1963-1973During 1963 Kodak introduces their newest camera the instamatic the instamatic was an in expensive easy to use camera and introduced low cost photography and was a simple point and click camera meaning very easy use.

Later in 1973 the company Fairchild Semiconductor released the first large image forming CCD chip which featured 100 rows and 100 columns pixels.

1994-1996At the start of 1994 Nikon introduces the worlds first optical-stabilized lens which is used to reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera or other imaging device during exposure.

Later in 1996 Eastman Kodak and Fujifilm with Agfaphoto and Konica introduce the advanced photo system(APS) which was a format for still photography it had three image formats:

• H: High definition

• C: Classic

• P Panoramic

1997-2000In 1997 the first known picture from a mobile phone was publicly shared via a cell phone by Philippe Kahn this was revolutionary as before this never before was such a small device able to take photographs and its thanks to this we have it on things like our iPhones in even better quality.

In 2000 J-SH04 introduced by j-phone the first commercially available mobile phone camera that could take still pictures and could be shared to any one them who's phone supported that format.

2006-2011In 2006 the company known as Dalsa produce a 111 megapixel CCD sensor the highest resolution at that time.

In 2011 Lytro releases the first pocket-sized consumer light-field camera capable of refocusing images after being take which was revolutionary due to the fact it means no more blurring when taking photographs and means no more reshoots and every new photograph you take will be blurred and no more re focusing on every new subject you photograph.