Photography has been around since the early 1800’s. For the last two hundred and ten years since the first photograph until now the digital camera age photographs and motion picture have advanced industrialization of the world from sales catalogs to internet sales, photographing of crime scenes and objects found at the crime scene give a new meaning to a picture is worth a thousand words.
Some may argue about when the first picture was taken just as sand stone and shall makes fossil impressions the first photograph was made by Nicephore Niepce the father of photography in 1825, Nicephore Niepce created a method for photography that used a piece of copper and placed bitumen over the copper. The copper cutout is exposed to light and makes an image which is transferable to paper. Nicephore Niepce took his first photograph of a stile picture of a man holding a horse by its straps this photograph go’s for about 300,000 dollars in today’s market. In 1826 Nicephore Niepce took the second picture the first of a real scene.
In 1838 The first human in a photograph was taken by Louis Daguerre the inventor of the Daguerreotype. The French government bought the Daguerreotype from Daguerre and released it to the public for free.
In 1840 the first Human subject was photographed by William Henry Fox Talbot the inventor of the negative and positive photographic processes, took a still picture of a man in front of a coach wagon.
In 1861 the first color photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell he photographed a ribbon three times using three different colored lenses then by projecting the tree colored pictures onto a screen all at the same time the light produced a color picture, once all three camera were lined up properly.
In1877 the first color landscape was photographed by Louis Arthur Ducos Du Hauron who invented the subtractive (cyan, magenta, and yellow) color method. This pioneer in color photographs latter worked on the additive (red, green, and blue) color method.
In 1934 the modern 35 mm film was invented changing the way photography was taken. This film invented by Kodak could be loaded into the camera during broad day light with preloaded reels, the perforated edges that allowed the camera to click in to photo position made the 35 mm Kodak a better camera even though it was expensive when it came out costing $175 which is equal to $3,000 today.
Cameras have come a long way from a large photo machine to a little hand held camera the differences between the technology is astonishing.
Digital cameras technology came about in 1951 from the same technology that recorded television called Video Tape Recorder (VTR). Later in the 1960’s NASA started to use digital cameras to take photos of the moon and the government used digital photography for spy surveillance. Texas Instruments patented an electronic camera that used no film, in 1972 later in 1981 Sony released the Mavica electronic still camera it was the first commercial electronic camera, the photographs were recorded onto a Mini disc. The Mavica took video freeze frames so they did not consider it a true digital camera.
In 1987 Kodak released seven different products for manipulating still video images. In 1991 Kodak released the first digital camera system it was the Nikon F-3 Digital1.3 pixel camera Kodak marketed the camera for photojournalist.
The first consumer Digital cameras where the 1994 Apple Quick take 100,1995 Kodak DC-40,1995 Casio QV 11, and 1996 Sony Cyber Shoot digital still camera. All of which had the expensive binocular look to them.
Today quick point and shoot cameras are made for ease and fun they have less features to get in the way and make good photographs. It helps to have a quick point and shoot camera because they are easy to conceal and put into your pocket when you get finished taking photographs. These cameras are less expensive and add about the same quality as a larger more expensive digital camera. The one thing that these cameras do not have is the user ability to make camera adjustments that are needed in some conditions.
The DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras take straight even pictures better than the smaller quick point and shoot digital cameras making them a little more professional than the smaller cameras. The DSLR cameras have exchangeable lenses, external flash and optical view finders. The DSLR cameras tend to be bulkier, weigh more, and cost more than the single shoot cameras. You can buy a DSLR camera for less than a thousand dollars now days. Most people prefer smaller easier to use cameras that cost less when dropped, lost,or stolen the more costly larger cameras are mostly for enthusiast who like to take a professional picture every once in awhile.
Some of the improvements cameras have made in the Justice System are due to the fact that cameras are devices and do not lie. If you do not edit the pictures in an incorrect manner, the photograph evidence is labeled properly, and has correct chain of custody; a picture can prove to be a hard piece of evidence to defend against. Most prosecution use pictures as supportive evidence to let the jury know that that they have no doubt of who committed the crime and the investigation tells the jury why. As evidence goes photographs are quicker and easy to display unlike video tapes and surveillance cameras.
Reference
http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Ny-Pi/Photography.html
http://listverse.com/2009/01/13/top-10-incredible-early-firsts-in-photography/
http://photo.net/history/timeline
http://www.articlesbase.com/digital-photography-articles/the-different-methods-of-photography-1844887.html
http//www.yahoo.com/images
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