EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography has come a long way in its relatively short history. In almost 200 years, the camera developed from a plain box that took blurry photos to the high-tech minicomputers found in today's DSLRs and smartphones. The story of photography is fascinating and it's possible to go into detail

Photography, as we know it today, began in the late 1830s in France. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen to light.

This is the first recorded image that did not fade quickly.

With each type of emulsion, photographers experimented with different chemicals and techniques. The following are the three that were instrumental in the development of modern photography.

Daguerreotype

Emulsion Plates

Dry Plates

Here is the evolution of the camera.