History of Photography

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History of Photography
History of Photography
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Camera Obscura

• Earliest technological development in cameras
• Works on the principle that light travels in a
  straight line
• The earliest mention of this type of device was
  by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti (5th century
  B.C. ) http//brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html

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The result in a completely dark room with no
source of light we can puncture a small hole in
the wall and observe the product of the light on
the opposite wall
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Camera Lucida
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Camera Lucida

• The original design of the camera lucida was
  published by William
• Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828)
• in 1807. Wollaston's design,
• used a four-sided
• glass prism

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• The prism was cut precisely to allow the light
  from an object and the light from the paper to
  travel to the eye
• Essentially a tracing tool that enables the user
  to trace 3D objects

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Creator of the first known photograph Nicéphore
Niépce positioned at the back of a camera obscura
sheets of silver salts coated paper, known to
blacken with daylight . (1817) http//www.niepce.c
om/pagus/pagus-inv.html
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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Wooden camera Talbot 1836
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Talbot 1836

• The first negatives - this allowed multiple
  copies to be printed
• Printed to writing paper prepared with washes of
  silver nitrate and common salt

http//www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/icons_of_in
vention/technology/1820-1880/IC.111/
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Talbot - University College, Oxford 1843
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An 1837 daguerreotype by Daguerre
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1837 daguerreotype Daguerre

• Using a process with copper plates silver nitrate
  and mercury daguerreotype was a successful
  photographic process
• The exposure time was between 10 and 20 minutes
  depending on the light
• His first plates were 8 1/2" by 6 1/2" it is
  interesting to note that this still remains the
  standard "whole-plate" today.
• http//www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/daguer
  ro.htm

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Note the one person in the photo with 10 min
exposure we must be still to be seen
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The Zoopraxiscope
invented by British photographer Eadweard
Muybridge first shown in 1879
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Study the motion of animals with Photography
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1890 35mm Film came into use
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