Module 3.1.2

Italian scholars used the camera as a drawing apparatus. Instead of using a darkroom, they used box with a lens and placed a mirror.

Camera Obscura was built-in with convex lens.

Thomas Wedgewood and Humphey Davy produced photograms.

The birth year of modern photography, the year when the Science of Photography became a public knowledge.

The year when photography was already well-developed. It was used as an art concerned with landscape, portraiture and architectural presentation.

The year when colored films, sensitized materials and different brands of cameras came in different types and model sold in the market.

In the United States, one of the earliest applied Forensic Science was in photography. It was used to demonstrate evidence in a California case. Enlarged photographs of a signature were presented in a court case involving forgery.

Full corrected lens were introduced

A plate was placed on the market that could reproduce all colors in equivalent shades of gray.

Lummiere color process was introduced. A panchromatic film was used but with blue, green and red filter.

Color process came out together with electronic flash

LASER was invented making possible Holograms – tri-dimensional pictures.

Colored photography has matured as an artistic medium.

Sony unveiled the firs consumer camera to use a charge-couple device for imaging, eliminating the need for film. The Sony Mavica saved images to disk, the images were displayed on television, and the camera was not fully digital.

Arrival of true digital cameras.