HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION

By:Frucisierre Hoffman

The First Camera

An Arab mathematician made the first model of a camera, but the meaning of its building was known earlier in time.

58 years later the prototype of a modern thingy magig (now known as Kodak) was made by George Eastman. Though the history of this “stuff” is rather long, I guess we can easily call THIS one the first REAL camera invented.

1826 was when the French men Charles and Vincent Chevalier built the first camera that COULD make photos, was created by a different person - Joseph Nicephore Niepce.

The First Photograph

In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first picture with a camera obscura. Before to Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce's made sun prints , they were called “the prototype “of modern photography, by letting light draw the picture.

Niepce placed an engraving onto a metal plate coated in bitumen, and then exposed it to light. The shadowy areas of the engraving blocked light, but the whiter areas permitted light to react with the chemicals on the plate.

When Niepce placed the metal plate in a solvent, gradually an image, until then invisible, appeared.

However, Niepce's photograph needed eight hours of light exposure to create and after appearing would soon fade away.

Thomas EdisonThomas Edison's interest in motion pictures began before 1888, however, the visit of Eadweard Muybridge to the inventor's laboratory in West Orange in February of that year certainly stimulated Edison's resolve to invent a motion picture camera.

The First Video Camera

John Baird, a Scottish engineer, was one of the first pioneers in capturing moving images for television production.

His experiments were based on others that had tried before him. So while it's ok to say that Baird was a pioneer in video camera technology, it is not ok to say that Baird was the video camera inventor

The video camera today is able to record images and sound. The first demonstration of this capability took place on 14 April 1956. Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson invented the first machine to record both images and sound.

This invention sold for approximately $75,000 apiece. Affordable only to major television broadcast studios such as CBS, who purchased three the same year, these machines remained professional devices for several years.

Video cameras designed for personal use, now called camcorders, became available to the general public in the 1980s.

These machines were bulky, heavy, and expensive, but proved to be efficient. Building upon technology that had been developed for years, major electronics companies such as Sony and JVC began developing new technology.

These companies invented the video camera as it is now known, and the devices were capable of capturing images, sound, and recording to a storage device all in one machine.

Mid 19th century "Brady stand" photo model's armrest table, meant to keep portrait models more still during long exposure times (studio equipment nicknamed after the famed US photographer, Mathew Brady).

An 1877 color photo by Louis Ducos du Hauron, a French pioneer of color photography. The overlapping yellow, cyan, and red subtractive color elements can clearly be seen.

1935 – Becky Sharp, the first feature film made in full color (Technicolor), is released

1908 – Kinemacolor, a two-color process that is the first commercial "natural color" system for movies, is introduced.

1888 – Kodak n°1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.

Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (who was Daguerre's partner, but died before their invention was completed) invented the first practical photographic method, which was named the daguerreotype, in 1836.

Daguerre coated a copper plate with silver, then treated it with iodine vapor to make it sensitive to light. The image was developed by mercury vapor and fixed with a strong solution of ordinary salt (sodium chloride).