Thursday, February 25, 2010

HISTORY OF THE CAMERA

1267 - ROGER BACON (english photographer) writes about the "camera obscura" as depicted by 10th century writings of arab scholars. 

Camera: (lat.) "vaulted room" 
Obscura: (lat.) "Darkness" 

1490 - LEONARD DI VINCI (artist) describes the room in detail.

A Camera obscura was a room what was very dark with a primitive lens on the top which projects an image (using mirrors) onto a concave surface.  It was originally used to see what was going on around the towns they were erected.  See - Jerez, de la Frontera in Spain. 

1557 - GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA PORTA suggests its use as a drawing aide, and the first movable camera obscura appears. 

1676 - First reflex mirror camera produced. 

1685 - First Telephoto lens produced. 

1826 - First Permanant captured image in recorded history taken by JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE.  It was an 8 hour exposure, created with Bitumen of Judea on a Pewter Plate.  It was the view from his bedroom window.  The process he used (Heliography) has now been recorded as the first successful example of what we now call photography.


Later on, Niepce's collaborator LUIS DAGUERRE continued the work mapped out by Niepce and created what would become known as the "Daguerrotype", a style of photography common in the early 1800s. 



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