The Invention Of Photography

Without the invention of photography, filmmaking wouldn't exist because of the groundwork it set for displaying images. In 1725, a German professor made a huge discovery in the world of capturing images. With the previously known camera obscura, he combined those methods with displaying the light on silver salt pewter plate. This led to one of the first images, that being of a letter, onto a piece of paper using light. After this discovery, Louis Daguerre exposed Iodized silver salt onto a metal sheet, showing a faint image of where the light was coming from. This cut the exposure time down from 8-10 hours to only around 10-20 minutes, letting more and more people "take photographs." The next piece of photo technology allowed for the used to expose the image on sensitive paper. Once the paper was soaked in hyposulphite, it produced a much clearer image than the inventions before. Without these pieces of photo technology, we would never be able to put images together to create movies.