History of Photography

(Now i know this may not be good but i tried to get some things down on what happend.)

Caeden Brusett

April 17 2012

Digital Photography

History of Photography

The first photograph was created in the 1820’s. The man who made it was named Nicéphore Niépce. He was a french man, born in 1765. The way he created the photograph was he used a camera obscura. People usually used the camera obscura for drawing purposes. At first the image would just disappear after a second or two but he figured it out. After he had made the image a man named Louis Jaques Mandé Daguerre who was an artist asked him about his creation. They became partners. Together they created the first camera, it was called the Daguerreotype. A problem with the Daguerreotype is that it had super long exposure times. You would have to stand still for  a long time if you wanted a clear image. In England there was a man called Henry Fox Talbot. In 1834 he created permanent images by using paper soaked in silver chloride and silver salt solution. Sadly they were “negative” images but he turned them into positive images by contact printing onto another piece of paper. In 1841 he dubbed his process “Calotype.”A man called Frederick Scott Archer who was as sculptor who lived in London at  at the time, improved the resolution of photographs. He did it by spreading a mixture of collodion and other chemicals on sheets of glass. His style of photography was much cheaper then the Daguerreotype. Also you could make unlimited reproductions of an image. The reason it could be reproduced was because of the positive and negative process. He did this in 1851.In 1861, ten years after Archer a scottish man named James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrated a color photography system which included three black and white photographs. Each one of them was taken through a filter of red, blue or green. He turned the images into lantern slides and then cast them against the wall in registration to the same color filters they used. It was called the color separation method.In 1888 the first Kodak camera was made. It contained a roll of paper that was twenty feet long! It was long enough for one-hundred 2.5 images. A year after this they improved the camera by putting in a roll of film instead of the paper. Finally in 1907 The Lumiere brothers made the first commercial color film. They assembled it in france. It seems that it would have been very popular. It is most likely true that they made a ton of money from that. What a big step in photography. Nippon Kogaku K.K., was formed in 1917. They would become the company Nikon. Nippon Kogaku K.K, was established in Tokyo. I wonder if Nippon Kogaku was the name of one of the partners?In 1924 Leitz a man who employed Oscar Barnack since he worked with microscopes created a slightly different camera then he did before when he worked with Barnack. And sold it and called it as the Leica. It was the first high quality thirty-five millimeter camera. But again it was only slightly different the the camera he had made before. Fuji photo film was founded in 1934. They started making film and lenses. Then in 1938 they were making camera’s additionally. That was a big step up.In 1963 Polaroid made the first colored instant film. Also Nikon made the first underwater Camera. They called it the Nikonos. It was first purpose built.Dark image editing was around for a long time since digital photography didn’t come until the around the 2000’s. Also the difference the difference between a computer and Dark image editing is that with the dark image enhancing or hold back certain parts of the image. Whereas in computer editing it is greatly exaggerating little details or adding special effects.