The last blog I did ended a little early so I thought it would only be appropriate for me to finish it off. In the last blog I talked about how the first picture was taken and how that soon lead to the positive/ negative developing process. I also talked about James Maxwell and his way of showing the first color pictures. I left off in 1877 when the first fast motion pictures was developed over a bet on whether or not a horses hooves all leave the ground when running. They do. I obviously couldn't just leave it at that. There is a large chunk of history left out. This leaves a lot of room to blog.
There have been many improvements on the camera since 1877. In 1885 George Eastman invented the first roll film. This allowed you to take many more pictures in less time and it made a much safer way to handle the unexposed film. This made it possible for Kodak to come out with the first mass produced camera in 1888. This was the beginning of the easy-to-use cameras where basic point and click is all you need to know. This roll film technology also was essential to early motion picture makers such as Thomas Edison. The roll film really is what lead to cameras gain in popularity and the same basic design is still used today.
In 1891 Thomas Edison invented the kinetoscope or motion picture seen above. Edison was the first to get a copyright for his short motion picture clip of his assistant sneezing. Soon after that the Lumière brothers introduced the first projected motion picture. The photography then started to really boom. The Lumière brothers soon had a new color film process and were quick to market it. Throughout this time Kodak continues to make smaller and more efficient. They soon come out with the first pocket camera and continue to improve upon the development process. This ends my history on photography.
I never knew that photography had so much history! Haha. I think it is so amazing how we have gone from using film back in the 1800s, to now, in the 2000s, we have all digital cameras. It should be interesting to see what we come up with in the next 50 years!
ReplyDeleteI know cameras have been around a while, but i had no idea they started mass producing them as early as 1888! thats forever ago! About 120 years! I remember my favorite camera as a kid was the polaroid knock off kind that you had to pull the tiny film out of it and then it would start develpoing in front of your eyes. The pic itself was smaller than a wallet but i loved using that thing! lol
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