Film Photography's History
The First Camera:
The first camera invented was presented and created by Alexander Wolcott on May 8 1840. His invention made sure that pictures could be taken and not fade away over time. Although Mr. Wolcott's creation is still considered the first camera but there were primitive cameras that lead to the invention of his. These cameras were the pinhole and camera obscura. The pinhole camera dates back to 400/350 B.C. and was used as imaged below. The camera obscura dates back to the mid 1500s and was a more put together form of the pinhole camera.
The first camera invented was presented and created by Alexander Wolcott on May 8 1840. His invention made sure that pictures could be taken and not fade away over time. Although Mr. Wolcott's creation is still considered the first camera but there were primitive cameras that lead to the invention of his. These cameras were the pinhole and camera obscura. The pinhole camera dates back to 400/350 B.C. and was used as imaged below. The camera obscura dates back to the mid 1500s and was a more put together form of the pinhole camera.
The first methods of taking and developing prints was the Daguerreotype, Calotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes. The daguerreotype was created by Louis Jacque Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1836. They used a copper plate with silver, then treated with iodine vapor to create these photos. This solution made the plate sensitive to light. Mercury vapor and table salt developed the image. They did not know that the mercury was hazardous at the time. Calotypes were created by Henry Fox Talbot in 1841. He used paper coated with silver iodide to make light sensitive paper. After paper was exposed to a light source excess silver iodide was washed away after pure silver was oxidized with an application of gallo-nitrate. The resulting silver oxide is black, making the image visible. Ambrotypes are positive photographs made on glass by a variant of the wet- plate collodion process (the collodion process was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1850 and otherwise known as Collodion wet-plate process. The collodion process replaced the Daguerrotype process and was replaced by the gelatin dry-plate process. Collodion is a substance that was used on the paper and could be stored in its wet form, hence the name.) Ambrotypes were found around 1855. Lastly, Tintypes are direct- positive images formed by elemental silver deposited onto a black metal plate. These were a form of the collodion process. Tintypes were created in the early 1860s.