Evolution of Photography by Sophia Varma

By aneeza_bhatti

  • Camera Obscura

    Camera Obscura
    Camera Obsecura Latin for "dark room". Consisted of a box/room with a hole in one side. Joseph Niepce takes first photographic image with camera obscura but the image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded.

  • First Permanent Image

    First Permanent Image
    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce camera obscura to develop a permanent image: metal plate, adding Bitumen (petroleum) and dissolving it in white petroleum. hardens with exposure to light & unhardened parts wash away and the metal plate is left with an image.

  • Louis Daguerre: First "Camera"

    Louis Daguerre: First "Camera"
    Louis Daguerre expiremented with photo - image developed
    The mercury vapour from a broken thermometer
    soaking it in a strong solution of salt & hot water.

  • First Moving Picture (Movie)

    First Moving Picture (Movie)
    Eadweard Muybridge, working with an engineer, created a sequence of 24 images of a running horse, taken by 24 cameras. Later on these photographs were being projected by a device called the kinetoscope & could only be seen one person at a time.

  • First Film Camera

    First Film Camera
    George Eastman idea photography with film. He first used paper film before changing to celluloid (transparent plastic). = Kodak

  • First Portable Camera

    First Portable Camera
    The Eastman Kodak Company made the first portable camera called "Brownie Camera" Was a black, rectangular shaped box covered with leather. To use it: hold the camera, aim, and turn a switch. Sold for $1.00 and each film cartridge was $0.15.

  • First Colour Film

    First Colour Film
    James Maxwell discovered color photographs could be formed using RGB ilters. Poloroid method to develop - first colour instant film

  • First Digital Camera

    First Digital Camera
    Steve Sasson invented the 1st digital camera.
    it is an 8 pound camera
    recorded 0.01 megapixel black and white photos to a cassette tape
    -each photograph - 23 seconds to create.

  • Photography Industry Today

    Photography Industry Today
    Improvement of digital techniques affects photography market positivey. Digital equipment speeds process of creating photographs = speeds up profit