Photography Facts:
- Photography is the art or practice of taking and processing photographs. The word for "photo" and "graphy" comes from the greek words photos which means light and graphein which means to draw.
- The man who was credited for taking the first photograph was a Frenchman named Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made the picture in 1826, using a sheet of pewter coated with bitumen of Judea.
History of photography and cameras:
Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera, (also called the Camera Obscura}.
In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Niepce placed an engraving onto a metal plate coated in bitumen, and then exposed it to light. When Niepce placed the metal plate in a solvent, gradually an image, until then invisible, appeared. However, Niepce's photograph required eight hours of light exposure to create and would soon fade away.
Louis Daguerre was also experimenting to find a way to capture an image, Daguerre was able to reduce exposure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing afterwards Louis Daguerra was the inventor of the first practical process of photography.
In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce. 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.
In 1839, Daguerre's son sold the rights for the daguerreotype to the French government and published a booklet describing the process. The daguerreotype gained popularity quickly; by 1850, there were over seventy daguerreotype studios in New York City alone. In 1841 Henry Fox Talbot invented the first negative from which multiple positive prints were made. Tintypes, patented in 1856 by Hamilton Smith, were another medium that heralded the birth of photography.
In 1851, Frederick Scoff Archer invented the wet plate negative. Because it was glass and not paper, this wet plate created a more stable and detailed negative, this also meant that the wet plates had to be developed quickly before the emulsion dried so you basically had to carry around a portable darkroom.
In 1879, the dry plate was invented, a glass negative plate with a dried gelatin emulsion. Photographers no longer needed portable darkrooms and could now hire technicians to develop their photographs. Dry processes absorbed light quickly so rapidly that the hand-held camera was now possible.
In 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. In the early 1940s, commercially viable color films (except Kodachrome, introduced in 1935) were brought to the market.
The first flexible roll films, dating to 1889, were made of cellulose nitrate. George Eastman. a dry plate manufacturer from Rochester, New York, invented the Kodak camera. For $22.00, an amateur could purchase a camera with enough film for 100 shots. Eastman's first simple camera in 1888 was a wooden, light-tight box with a simple lens and shutter that was factory-filled with film. The photographer pushed a button to produce a negative. Once the film was used up, the photographer mailed the camera with the film still in it to the Kodak factory where the film was removed from the camera, processed, and printed. The camera was then reloaded with film and returned. Flashlight powder was invented in Germany in 1887 by Adolf Miethe and Johannes Gaedicke.
On September 23, 1930, the first commercially available photoflash bulb was patented by German, Johannes Ostermeier. These flashbulbs were named the Vacublitz. In 1878, Wratten invented the "noodling process" of silver-bromide gelatin emulsions before washing.
In 1906, Wratten with the assistance of Dr. C.E. Kenneth Mees (E.C.K Mees) invented and produced the first panchromatic plates in England. Wratten is best known for the photographic filters still named after him - Wratten Filters.
In1905, Oskar Barnack had the idea of reducing the format of film negatives and then enlarging the photographs after they had been exposed. He took an instrument for taking exposure samples for cinema film and turned it into the world's first 35 mm camera: the 'Ur-Leica'.
Polaroid photography was invented by Edwin Herbert Land. The first Polaroid camera was sold to the public in November, 1948.
Fuji introduced the disposable camera in 1986.
In 1984, Canon demonstrated first digital electronic still camera.
In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Niepce placed an engraving onto a metal plate coated in bitumen, and then exposed it to light. When Niepce placed the metal plate in a solvent, gradually an image, until then invisible, appeared. However, Niepce's photograph required eight hours of light exposure to create and would soon fade away.
Louis Daguerre was also experimenting to find a way to capture an image, Daguerre was able to reduce exposure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing afterwards Louis Daguerra was the inventor of the first practical process of photography.
In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce. 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.
In 1839, Daguerre's son sold the rights for the daguerreotype to the French government and published a booklet describing the process. The daguerreotype gained popularity quickly; by 1850, there were over seventy daguerreotype studios in New York City alone. In 1841 Henry Fox Talbot invented the first negative from which multiple positive prints were made. Tintypes, patented in 1856 by Hamilton Smith, were another medium that heralded the birth of photography.
In 1851, Frederick Scoff Archer invented the wet plate negative. Because it was glass and not paper, this wet plate created a more stable and detailed negative, this also meant that the wet plates had to be developed quickly before the emulsion dried so you basically had to carry around a portable darkroom.
In 1879, the dry plate was invented, a glass negative plate with a dried gelatin emulsion. Photographers no longer needed portable darkrooms and could now hire technicians to develop their photographs. Dry processes absorbed light quickly so rapidly that the hand-held camera was now possible.
In 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. In the early 1940s, commercially viable color films (except Kodachrome, introduced in 1935) were brought to the market.
The first flexible roll films, dating to 1889, were made of cellulose nitrate. George Eastman. a dry plate manufacturer from Rochester, New York, invented the Kodak camera. For $22.00, an amateur could purchase a camera with enough film for 100 shots. Eastman's first simple camera in 1888 was a wooden, light-tight box with a simple lens and shutter that was factory-filled with film. The photographer pushed a button to produce a negative. Once the film was used up, the photographer mailed the camera with the film still in it to the Kodak factory where the film was removed from the camera, processed, and printed. The camera was then reloaded with film and returned. Flashlight powder was invented in Germany in 1887 by Adolf Miethe and Johannes Gaedicke.
On September 23, 1930, the first commercially available photoflash bulb was patented by German, Johannes Ostermeier. These flashbulbs were named the Vacublitz. In 1878, Wratten invented the "noodling process" of silver-bromide gelatin emulsions before washing.
In 1906, Wratten with the assistance of Dr. C.E. Kenneth Mees (E.C.K Mees) invented and produced the first panchromatic plates in England. Wratten is best known for the photographic filters still named after him - Wratten Filters.
In1905, Oskar Barnack had the idea of reducing the format of film negatives and then enlarging the photographs after they had been exposed. He took an instrument for taking exposure samples for cinema film and turned it into the world's first 35 mm camera: the 'Ur-Leica'.
Polaroid photography was invented by Edwin Herbert Land. The first Polaroid camera was sold to the public in November, 1948.
Fuji introduced the disposable camera in 1986.
In 1984, Canon demonstrated first digital electronic still camera.