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The first photo of a person
This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre.in the bottom left hand corner is a man who just so happened to stay somewhat still during the shot — he was having his shoes shined. -
The first ariel photo
A Frenchman called Nadar, whose real name was Gaspard Felix Tournachon, took the very first aerial photograph.He was a French writer, caricaturist, photographer and tireless innovator. In 1855 he patented the idea of using aerial photographs in mapmaking and surveying. It was not until 1858, however, that he was able to make a successful aerial photograph, the world's first, from a balloon. -
The first colour photo
By james Clark Maxwell (1831-1879). Maxwells photogrpaher took three photographs of a tartan ribbon, each with a different coloured filter; these were used to make three positive lantern slides which were then projected together on a screen to make a colour photogrpah. -
The first action photo
Edward James Muggeridge is credited with inventing action photography due in large part to his historic series of motion pictures featuring running orses. To document galloping horses, muybridge set up a row of a dozen cameras rigged by a wire that connected to the shutters. -
The first under water colour photo
It's a hogfish captured off the Florida Keys in 1926 by national geographic photographer Charles Martin and Dr.William Longley. In addition to some special waterproof camera housing, the duo used pounds of highly explosive magnesium flash powder to illuminate the scene. -
The frist photo map of the night sky
The first photo map of the sky was created in 1946. National geographic teams up with california institute of technologyfor the palomar observatory sky survey, a sevn year project to produce the first photogrpahic mamp of the nothern hemisphere's night sky. -
The first permanent image
the First Photograph was conducted at Helmut Gernsheim's request by the Research Laboratory of the Eastman Kodak Company in Harrow, England, in March of 1952. After three weeks of work utilizing strong side lighting, high contrast film and the identical angular displacement of the camera and enlarger lenses, the lab produced this copyprint. -
The first magazine to publish everything in colour
After decades of pioneering color photography technology, National Geographic magazine introduced a new era when it became the first major American periodical to print an all-color issue in February 1962. Photograph by Frederick Kent Truslow With the invention of the small, lightweight Leica camera and Kodak's 35mm Kodachrome film, the magazine was able to publish more color in its editorial pages throughout 1962 than any other major magazine in the country. -
The first digital still camera
The camera was built at Kodak by Steve Sasson, now credited as the inventor of the digital camera. The device in question was supposed to be portable, but with 16 nickle-cadmium batteries, a tape recorder for data storage, and half a dozen circuit boards, it was anything but. It took nearly a year to build the device, but it was finally ready in December 1975. It sported a 0.01 megapixel resolution, and it took 23 seconds to commit the photograph to the tape. Obviously, the camera is only of s -
The first photo from space
The first photo from space was in 1946. Researchers with the john hoplins university applied physics laboratory sprap a 35-millimetre camera to a german V-2 missile and launch it into space from white sands Missile Range in New mexico. The Camera snaps a picture every second and a half as the rocket ascends to 65 miles above the surface.
