According to https://www.scancorner.com.au/history-of-the-cameras-timeline/
the first camera ever invested was a pinhole camera...thanks to Ibn Al-Haytham.
Thanks to him I get to play with cameras every day in some form or another.
My favorites are the ones from 1930 those and polaroids in 1948...something about being able to instantly print an image.....oh and wetback Reise's...ok ill just stop now.
Everyone now has the ability to capture a moment in time, memories in an instant, some never get printed, some never get shared...
Back in the old days, a lot more thought went into the composition of each image as it was a lot of effort to produce an image.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in about the mid-1820's produced the first image in France with the daguerreotype by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in 1839 also in Paris.. The French had great art, wine and cameras.....
I feel things didn't get really interesting until 1851, according to Harvard library, " the wet plate collodion process was introduced by Frederick Scott Archer...this process provided a greater level of detail and clarity. It remained the dominant glass negative process in the United States until it was replaced by the gelatin dry plate process in the 1880s."
Tintype again by those Americans came in to being in mid-1850's and was patented.. a truly beautiful era.
Ah...a... different time and beautiful old techniques...we were all headng to the same outcome, having a camera on us at all times....capturing those precious moments.
Next time you snap a shot with your camera phone only about 20 years old now.. think back to the old days where you had to lug several kilos of the camera around and every shot didn't come out perfectly unless you were highly skilled.
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