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Camera Obscura Diagram. Image by:
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- It was not until the 1820's when the first "image" was captured.
- French inventor, Nicephore Niepce, and artist, Louis Daguerre, successfully captured the first "image" by fitting a glass prism to the end of the camera obscura which would focus the light onto a plate of iodized silver solution which, when reacted to light, would 'freeze' the image in the prism.
- Daguerre figured out that after the image was 'frozen' into the silver solution, you would need to expose it to a mercury solution to permanently freeze the image onto the plate. He effectively created the first Darkroom.
- This method was heavily refined throughout the years to be more portable, and to produce better images.
- In the 1920s the first 'modern' 35mm film camera was produced.
- This literally change the wold of photography. You no longer needed a huge, bulky setup to produce an image. A photographer could grab his/her camera and go.
