What a Lens Shows

Depends on:

• Size of subject
• Distance from subject
• Focal length of lens
• Size of camera's light sensor

George Eastman

Found the complexity of photography a serious bar to enjoying it  so developed a dry plate, setting up Kodak.

Importance: Invnted snapshot photography, bringing photography to the masses

The Lumiere Brothers

Method: Gelatin-silver-bromide dry plate. Used mosiac of microscopic potato starch grains with bits of carbon black in between, then covered with shellac layer and coated in panchromatic emulsion

Importance: Invented the autochrome, the first viable colour photography process

Eadweard Mubridge

Importance: Applied photography to what the eye could actually be

The Horse in Motion

William Henry Fox Talbot

His method:

• Invented salted paper print
• coating writing paper with it then put a coat of silver nitrate on top
• Through contact printint he could make a cameraless picture as it made a negative version of objects
• The coated paper darkens on exposure to light so their was no need for development
• He could then make a positive image by contact printing the negative

Importance: Orginated the method upon which all subsequent photography was based (until the invention of electronic imaging)

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

• Worked with another Frenchman to fix a permanent positive image on a metal plate
• Trained as theatre set painter and designer

Importance:

Invented the first visible photograohic process to be announced to the world