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First Photograph
The photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from his property in the Burgundy region of France. He coated a piece of metal or glass with Bitumen of Judea and it hardened in proportion with the exposure of light that hit it. When the plate was washed with lavender oil the areas that hardened remained. -
Daguerreotype
The Daguerreotype was a photographic process that was the first commercially successful photographic process. The Daguerreotype had an image on a silvered copper plate which was not flexible and rather heavy. The Daguerreotype were very expensive so only the rich could afford it but did not fade with time. -
First Colour photograph
The photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish mathematical physicist. Maxwell took 3 separate photos of the tartan ribbon using 3 separate filters, one red, one blue and one yellow. He next combined the three photos creating one coloured image. -
First Photos of Movement
On 1875 English photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured a photo of a horse's movement. Muybridge arranged 12 cameras which will be triggered by tripwires on a racetrack on the patch of the horse. Eadweard first tried to capture the movement in 1872 but took 6 years for him to capture the movement of the horse. -
First Camera
George Eastman invented the camera which he called “Kodak”. The Kodak was a box camera with a fixed focus lens and only one shutter speed. The Kodak came with film preloaded in the camera that could last 100 photos. The camera was released in 1888 for sale and was released at a relatively low price -
The First Polaroid Camera
The first Polaroid camera was demonstrated the instant camera at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City. The polaroid camera or the land camera as it was originally known as named after the founder of polaroid, Edwin Land. This camera produced the images in the camera -
The First Polaroid Camera Was Sold
The Polaroid Land Camera Model 95 weighed 4 pounds or 1.8 kilograms and was sold in a store in Boston for $89.75. The camera contained a roll of positive paper with a pod of chemicals for producing the image at the top of every frame. Twisting the knob exposed the paper and when the paper was peeled back it exposed the photo. -
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The first Polaroid camera was demonstrated the instant camera at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City. The polaroid camera or the land camera as it was originally known as named after the founder of polaroid, Edwin Land. The camera contained a roll of positive paper with a pod of chemicals for producing the image at the top of every frame. Twisting the knob exposed the paper which was pushed out through the rollers. A trimmer cut the paper so each photo was isolated. Afte -
First Digital Camera
The first digital camera was invented by an engineer at Kodak named Steve Sasson. The camera weighed 8 pounds or 3.6 kilograms. The camera took 0.01 megapixel black and white photos. The photos used a cassette tape and the first photo took 23 seconds to produce -
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The first digital camera was invented by a young 24 year old engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson. The camera he engineered weighed 8 pounds or 3.6 kilograms. The camera took 0.01 megapixel black and white photos. The photos used a cassette tape and the first photo took 23 seconds to produce. The images were written on the cassette and was viewed through the cassette using a tv. Steve Sasson made it using parts from the used parts bin. He used a portable digital cassette instrumentation -
First DSLR
The Kodak dcs 100 was the first digital single lens reflex (DSLR) released by Kodak in 1991. The Kodak dcs 100 was a modified Nikon f3. What Kodak did was put the digital sensor in the back of the Nikon f3 body. The camera had a resolution of 1.3 megapixels. -
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The Kodak DCS or Digital camera system was the first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) released by Kodak in 1991 and retailed ad $20,000. The Kodak DCS was unofficially named the Kodak DCS 100. The Kodak DCS was a modified Nikon f3. What Kodak did was put the digital sensor in the back of the Nikon f3 body. The camera had a resolution of 1.3 megapixels.The photos taken from this machine were saved to the DSU or Digital Storage Unit. The Digital Storage Unit was attached using an interconnect cab -
First “ground-up” DSLR
Nikon D1 camera was a DSLR designed and manufactured by Nikon from with a cost of $6000. This was the first “ground-up” DSLR as previously Kodak modified a Nikon f3 by putting a digital sensor inside the Nikon body. The camera can take 2.7 megapixel photos at a 4.5 fps shooting
