History of Photography
The history of photography spans millennia, ranging from the Greek philosophers to the photographic pioneers of today. Throughout this history, the problem of being able to store an image, or make it permanent, has been the most restrictive factor of advancement in photography. How was this problem overcome, and how is it being dealt with today? The history of film is what has made these problems solvable. The first real photographic discovery came when Aristotle came upon camera obscura. What aristotle saw was a reflection of an image from outside on a wall inside a dark room. Although this was an amazing discovery, people didn't realize its significance until about 1500 A.D. in Italy. The the principle was rediscovered, and given its first real use in what can be called the first camera. It was a large box, with a small opening through which the image was projected, and then sketched by artists, and later colored. This had obvious shortcomings however, and people still sought after a way to permanently record an image. Nearly 250 years later, a German Physicist named Johann H. Schulze discovered that silver salts change when exposed to light, and about 50 yeas later, a Swedish Chemist named Carl Scheele discovered that
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