Camera

The Cameras history could be traced much further than the introduction of Photography. The first ever camera was a developed version of the camera obscura, which started off the evolution of Camera. The cameras where getting better as well as the photographic technology which included daguerreotypes, colotypes, dry plates, film and digital cameras.

The Camera obscura was the first ever device which allowed people to project an image onto a surface. The image was up-side down because of how the camera worked, however when the image got onto the viewing surface it looked normal as the image would reflect of the mirror inside the camera. The camera used either a pinhole or lens to project the image. 

The photo above shows what the camera obscura looked like and how it worked, as we can see the white line took the top side of the image while the green line would take the bottom side of the image they went in through the lens where they swapped places (up-side down) but then they both would reflect off of the mirror which made the image look normal on the viewing surface. 

The creation of permanent images started off with Thomas Wedgwood in 1790 and also Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. They were both well known for begin the inventors of Photography. Thomas Wedgwood was one of the first people who experimented within the Photographic field. He is the first person who had thought of creating permanent images. 

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the person who developed heliography which used a a naturally occurring asphalt, as a coating on glass or metal after the coating hardened in proportion to its exposure to light. When the plate was washed with oil of lavender, only the hardened areas remained which formed a permanent photo. 

                           

This was one of the first photos ever made. It was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.