History Flashcards
William Henry Fox Talbot invented what?
Calotype
The development of instant cameras is credited to whom?
Edwin Land
Who took the first photograph?
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
What was the first photograph taken with?
A pewter plate and bitumen of Judea (a light sensitive substance)
What did Louis Daguerre discover?
Louis Daguerre discovered the Daguerreotype which is a process which exposes silver to iodine vapour before light, then to mercury. Using a salt bath ‘fixes’ the image
What is the Calotype and who invented it?
William Henry Fox Talbot created the calotype (also known as the Talbotype) process, which used paper coated with silver iodine. This process involved sensitizing paper with a silver salt solution and exposing it to light. The calotype was named after the Greek word kalos, meaning “beautiful.”
What did Frederick Scott Archer invent?
The collodion process used wet plates, which were glass plates that had been covered with a mixture of chemicals before being placed in the camera for the exposure.
What did Sergei Lvovich Levitsky do?
Designed a bellows camera that made focusing on the subject easier.
First person to use interchangeable backgrounds
One of the first people to begin retouching the negatives
Proposed the idea to use artificial light as well as natural light.
Who developed a way how to use gelatin instead of glass for negatives? (Dry Plate)
Richard Maddox
What was the first camera to be available to the mass market?
The Kodak Brownie
What did Oskar Barnack do?
He invented the 35mm film
Who developed a way to project somewhat coloured images and how did he do it?
James Clerk Maxwell used filters to create three monochrome images (red, blue, and green). When projected together with three different lanterns, the image would have a more natural colour. Experiments such as this formed the basis for trichromatic color photography.
What is Autochrome Lumière?
Autochrome Lumière was one of the color processes in the early 20th century. It was patented Auguste and Louis Lumière. It was one of the primary color photography process until the 1930s. Autochrome Lumière involved coating a glass with microscopic grains that had been dyed colors like green, violet, and orange. These dyed grains acted as a filter for the image being photographed.
What is Kodachrome?
A color still film that used a subtractive process. It was the first successfully marketed color still film
What was the first commercially available digital camera?
Kodak DCS 100
