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 DAGUERRE PROCESS

1839

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.

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 MOVEMENT

James 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 MIRACLES

In 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 WORLD

Kodak 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 AUTOCHROME

In 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 1947

In 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.

1949-1957

During 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.

1963-1973

During 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.

1994-1996

At 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

1997-2000

In 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.

2006-2011

In 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.