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The first photograph
history of photographyJoseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image using a camera obscura. people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by letting light draw the picture. -
The Daquerreotype
photographyLouis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography. In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to improve the process Niepce had developed.
In 1839 after several years of experimentation and Niepce's death, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself - the daguerreotype. Daguerre's process 'fixed' the images onto a sheet of silver-plated copper. He polished the silver and coated it in iodine, c -
The First Motion Pictures
Photography MagicIn 1872, Eadweard Muybridge, a British-born photographer, was hired by Leland Stanford (who later founded the university), to settle a question (some people say a $25,000 bet) whether there was a point in a horse's full gallop where all four hooves were off the ground.
Muybridge arranged 12 cameras alongside a race track and attached a string to the camera switches across the track. Whe -
Flexible Roll Film
Roll FilmIn 1889, George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled. Emulsions coated on a cellulose nitrate film base, such as Eastman's, made the mass-produced box camera a reality. -
The Brownie Camera
about.comEastman Kodak Company introduced a low-priced, point-and-shoot, hand-held camera, called the Brownie. The Brownie camera, simple enough for even children to use, was designed, priced, and marketed to have wide appeal. It made photography accessible to the masses.The Brownie camera was a simple, black, rectangular box covered in imitation leather with nickeled fittings. -
35mm Cameras
Camera InprovementsOskar Barnack had the idea of reducing the format of film negatives and then enlarging the photographs after they had been exposed. As development manager at Leica, he was able to put his theory into practice. He took an instrument for taking exposure samples for cinema film and turned it into the world's first 35 mm camera -
The Box Camera
ehow,comBox cameras are the simplest form of camera, and they are the oldest type known. Originally consisting of a basic closed container with a small opening for light to create the exposure, they had few or no moving parts. Their evolution created modern photography. -
Color Photographs
about.comIn the early 1940s, commercially viable color films (except Kodachrome, introduced in 1935) were brought to the market. These films used the modern technology of dye-coupled colors in which a chemical process connects the three dye layers together to create an apparent color image. -
Kodak Digital Camera
nbcnews.comSteven Sasson knew right away in December 1975 that his 8-pound, toaster-size contraption, which captured a black-and-white image on a digital cassette tape at a resolution of .01 megapixels, "was a little bit revolutionary." -
The Photo CD System
kodak.comKodak announced the development of its Photo CD system for playing images on television screens, and proposed a worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment of computers and computer peripherals. -
DC40 Camera
Kodak developed the world’s first digital camera in 1975, but it was not until 1995 that the technology became widely available to consumers with its groundbreaking DC40 camera. This trailblazing innovation paved the way for the digital camera phenomenon that has resulted in more than 40 percent of American households owning at least one digital camera by the end of 2004. -
Kodak EasyShare-One Camera
dpnow.comA decade after DC40 revolutionized the consumer photography world, the Kodak EasyShare-One camera — the first digital camera made as much for sharing photos as taking them — redefines digital photography. With its unprecedented picture-sharing possibilities, the Kodak EasyShare-One camera establishes the point-and-share era, where sharing pictures is as effortless as taking them:
• Wireless E-mail: Send pictures to friends around the globe, dir -
Sony RX100 Camera
examiner.comAnnounced back in June, Sony caused quite a stir when it announced that it was creating an all-new, 1-inch sensor, using in a traditionally-sized pocket cam, and stuffing a 28-100mm equivalent lens into it to complete the package. Another point of trivia: the RX100 was the first Sony compact to be able to record in RAW format. Other sure-to-please features included a control ring, stratospheric ISOs, 7 rounded aperture blades in the lens, and 10 frames per second continuous drive. However, for a
