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Who Invented Photography?

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    No one person can take the credit.  It was a long process of many different people developing techniques and understanding how light worked, and how it might be captured in an instant image.  Some of the basic milestones are:

    ~450 BC : Basic principles of optics and a rudimentary camera idea worked out by ancient Greeks and Chinese.  

    1665: Isaac Newton showed that light was separated into different colours.

    1727: Johann Heinrich Schulze found silver nitrate darkened when exposed to light.

    1814: Joseph Nic�phore Ni�pce makes photographic image with camera obscura - this faded quickly & took eight hours of exposure.

    1837: Louis-Jacques-Mand� Daguerre's shows off his first daguerreotype (only a handful survive today). It didn't fade, but still needed  30 minutes exposure.

    1841: William Henry Talbot presents the Calotype process - allowing multiple copies of pictures.  Talbot is often accredited with inventing the photography process as we know it, using negatives to make positives (actual photographs).

    1851: Frederick Scott Archer derives Collodion process.  Now images could be made after only two or three seconds of exposure.

    1913: First 35mm camera developed.
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