A brief history of the Photography Camera

  

  HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 

If you poke a hole in the wall of a darkroom you create camera obscura light passing through the hole is projected upside down and retains colour and perspective.

retains colour

The first historical mentions of camera obscura in pinhole photography is by ancient philosophers mousy Aristotle and Al Hassan in 1490 Leonardo da Vinci records detailed descriptions of camera obscura and uses it to trace stuff by the 1700s camera obscura devices is common.

There's evidence to suggest artists like Rembrandt Vermeer and Caravaggio uses them hmm sketching in 1724 Johann Heinrich Shelton discovers that substances mix with silver nitrate react to light sadly the images fade soon after until one day in 1826.

The world's first photograph is taken by Josef Nietzsche for Niepce and France using a procedure called heliography voila this exposure takes several days and you can see the sunlights of both sides of the building after his death meet Jay's partner Louie de Guerre continues his working creates the first practical photographic process in 1833 the daguerreotype in 1839.

 Josef Nietzsche 

The French government buys and declares the daguerreotype free to the world this is when cool stuff starts happening as the first photo of a human although this exposure lasted around seven minutes a man was getting his shoes polished and were standing perfectly still thus making history this was also.

 

 The first photo with Sol and of course, the world's first selfie is taken by a guy named Robert Cornelius and humans gonna human it wouldn't take long for nude photography to kick-off too in 1840 Henry Fox Talbot unveils.

The calotype is a process based on negatives that allow for paper copies to be made however Talbot try to charge license fees for the calotype so it didn't really catch on compared to the Gare whose name is now one of 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower Talbot spent his life-fighting lawsuits and eventually gave up on photography you could say Talbot became a big negative in the end.

It's also important to mention the contribution of Sir John Herschel who published many essential research papers in coined the term photography from the Greek words of light in drawing by the 1850s mobile photo studios were all the rage because photos had to be developed on-site exposure.

Times were about three minutes long so people use neck braces and drugs to keep still it's also why nobody smiled in early photos what could be the world's first Photoshop occurs in 1861.

The head of Abraham Lincoln is placed on a more noble body the world's first color photograph is also produced it's of a bow in 1871 Richard Leach Maddox.

Who had an outstanding mustache invents  the ground Englishman Edward my bridge sets up twelve cameras with wire triggers in the path of a galloping horse.

The world's first photo sequence proves that they do in 1885 George Eastman founder of EastmanKodak invents roll film.

The first handheld camera the Kodak goes on sale in 1888 why Kodak because Eastman just like the letter K the Kodak came preloaded with a hundred exposures that needed to be sent back to the factory for processing and reloading when the roll was finished, Eastman.

Oskar Barnack builds

Takes mass-market photography a step further in the early 1900s with the brownie is an affordable box camera that introduces the concept of the snapshot lights employee Oskar Barnack builds.

The revolutionary 35 millimeter Leica one which goes into production in 1925 the camera allows photographers to go mobile and capture the moment some of the most iconic images in history.

The first single-lens reflex SLR camera arrives in 1949 and the first digital image is created from a scan in 1957.

first single-lens reflex SLR camera

However digital cameras would only arrive a little later in 1975 when Steve Sasson a young engineer working for Eastman Kodak invents.

The first digital camera but nobody at Kodak is interested in digital who wants to see their photos on a TV why change the profitable film photography formula too late Kodak only later switches to digital in 2004 and files for bankruptcy in 2012.

The digital revolution begins in the 90s DSLRs pointed shoe photography had never been more accessible well until.

90s DSLRs

The first mobile phone with a camera came out in 2000 game-changer 15 years later and modern smartphones now have insanely powerful cameras in just seconds we can capture every moment and share it online photography has become a global passion and has truly brought the world closer together.

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