| -- End Ad Box ---> | | | | your pictures, mail the camera to Kodak who |
| Modern day photography dates back to the early | | | | would develop your 100 photos and send them |
| 1800's. The word photography is derived from | | | | back to you along with another roll of 100 |
| the Greeks; photos meaning light and graphein | | | | exposures. Sound familiar? The big difference? |
| meaning to draw. The word was first used in | | | | You used to get your camera back, now you |
| 1839 by scientist Sir John FW Herschel to | | | | don't! |
| describe a method of recording images. That was | | | | These pioneers would be amazed with the |
| 12 years after the first photograph was captured | | | | equipment available to us today. We have the |
| by Frenchman Louis Jacque Mande Daguerre, a | | | | digital camera, the SLR,35mm, the camcorder, |
| professional opera scene painter. This first | | | | automatic exposure and automatic focusing, zoom |
| process took eight hours and he then worked 12 | | | | lens and video. We even take pictures with our |
| more years to reduce the expose time to under | | | | cellphones, which we can then download onto our |
| 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing. | | | | computers. We have the luxury of going just |
| These first photographs were exposed on metal | | | | about anywhere to get that perfect shot. |
| that had been sensitized to accept the image and | | | | Indoors, outdoors, underwater, or on top of a |
| were called Daguerreotypes after their French | | | | mountain. We attach our camera to a tripod and |
| inventor. Then came the tintype, invented in 1856 | | | | set the self timer so we can be in that majestic |
| by Hamilton Smith. This was a thin sheet of iron | | | | mountain scene. |
| used as a base for light sensitive material to | | | | When the equipment was of a size to be |
| produce a photograph. | | | | transported from place to place, they certainly |
| Along came an American from upstate New | | | | didn't have a camera case with a padded shoulder |
| York, George Eastman, who was very fascinated | | | | strap. We have a camera bag suited to fit every |
| by photography, but frustrated with what he | | | | camera and the accessories. Backpacks for hiking |
| considered cumbersome exposure methods. He | | | | up that trail and lens pouches. |
| developed a dry photographic plate, patented it in | | | | We can take pictures as a hobby, while on |
| the United States and England and began his first | | | | vacation; supplement our income as a weekend |
| photographic business in 1880. In 1884, he | | | | photographer/writer for a local newspaper; or |
| replaced the glass plates with paper rolls allowing | | | | travel the world as a full-time photojournalist. |
| multiple images to be taken much more quickly. | | | | Today, our photographic possibilities are limitless |
| Four years later, on September 4, 1888 he | | | | thanks, at least in part, to these photography |
| patented he "roll film camera". You could take | | | | trailblazers. |