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In early cameras, central shutter speeds were slow, so moving curtain shutters were used for moving subjects. Because of this, photographs of driving cars were obtained with oval wheels. However, this was not perceived as a defect - it was believed that such pictures perfectly emphasize the swiftness and speed. Later, this is why comic and cartoon artists often depicted cars with oval wheels.

During the occupation, French singer Edith Piaf performed in POW camps in Germany, after which she was photographed for memory with them and German officers. Then, in Paris, the faces of prisoners of war were cut out and pasted into false documents. Piaf went to the camp on a return visit and secretly smuggled these passports with which some of the prisoners managed to escape.

The famous photograph of Einstein with his tongue sticking out was taken in 1951 at the birthday of the physicist. Einstein gave it to the popular science host Howard Smith, and on back side cards wrote: "You will like this gesture, because it is intended for all mankind."

In the film "Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath" there is a funny blooper. When Lukashin throws a photograph of Ippolit out of the window, it shows the hero we are used to, played by Yakovlev. And when Nadya picks her up from the snow, Oleg Basilashvili is already depicted there. The fact is that it was Basilashvili who was originally planned for the role of Ippolit, but was forced to refuse due to the death of his father. However, the episode with the raising of the photo has already been filmed, and they have simply forgotten to replace it with a photo with the "Yakovlevsky" Ippolit.

In addition to the famous use of pigeons in mail delivery, they have also been successfully trained for aerial photography. The first patent for a camera designed to be carried by a pigeon was received in 1908 by the German Julius Neubronner. Despite the acceptable image quality, the first World war aerial photography with pigeons was never used. During World War II, according to various reports, the pigeons-photographers were used by the Germans, French and Americans. Although the only material evidence can be considered only a German toy - a figure of a soldier releasing a pigeon carrying a camera from his hands

Previously, photographers, in order for all children in a group photo to look into the lens, said: “Look here! A bird will fly out now! " This bird was quite real at the beginning of the era of mass photography - though not alive, but brass. In those days, cameras were far from perfect, and to get a good picture, people had to freeze in one position for a few seconds. To attract the attention of restless children, the assistant of the photographer at the right moment raised a brilliant "bird", which already knew how to issue trills.

The rainbow can be seen not only during the day. There are also lunar rainbows arising from the reflected moon sunlight... Since this light is significantly weaker than direct sunlight, a lunar rainbow usually looks just white to the human eye, but a long-exposure camera can record it in color.

It was created by James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish mathematician and physicist, in 1861. and was a simultaneous projection of three transparencies - red, green and blue - onto the screen. This proved the validity of the three-component theory of vision and outlined the ways of creating color photography.

The first person who managed to make a "photographic" picture permanent, that is, to fix the image was Joseph Niepce, this is a fact. The first photograph in the history of photography is considered to be the "View from the window", dated 1826. The exposure of the picture lasted 8 (!) Hours.

The first person to invent negative was Fox Talbot. This event took place in 1839. In the same year, Hippolyte Bayard presented the world with the first positive imprint.


The first "photographic paper" was made of asphalt. More precisely, asphalt varnish was applied to a copper or glass plate.

The obscura camera, which became the prototype of the modern camera, is used to this day for the production of integrated circuits, and as a special television camera.




The first photos in Russia were taken by Yu.F. Fritzsche by the Talbot method.


The first color photograph in Russia was published in the "Notes of the Russian Technical Society". It depicts Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

The basis of the digital camera was invented in 1973. These were CCDs, with the help of which it was possible to obtain an image with a size of 100x100 pixels. The first astronomical electron photo was taken with such matrices as early as the next year.
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The history of digital photography begins with the Mavica camera, which was released by Sony in 1981. Mavica is an almost full-fledged DSLR with interchangeable lenses and a resolution of 570x490 pixels. However, at that time it was considered a "static video camera", the result of which was not a video stream, but static pictures - separate frames.


Officially, the world's first digital camera is considered to be the development of Kodak, or rather Stephen Sesson. The camera he invented recorded the image on an audio cassette with magnetic tape. The image recording time from the moment the shutter button was pressed was 22 seconds.

The world's first autofocus SLR camera was released by Polaroid in 1979, and in 1985 Minolta released a camera that eventually became the standard for SLR cameras(both the sensor and the motor were contained in the camera body).

1. The first photograph taken with a camera in history is called "View from the Window", it was taken by Niepce in 1826.

2. In our country, the first photographic frame was created in Russian Empire... It was a photograph of L.N. Tolstoy.

3. The prototype of the photographic film, weighing 15 kg, was a roller cassette. It contained 12 pictures.

4. The cost of the oldest camera, sold through an auction in Vienna in 2007, was 800,000 USD, with an initial cost 8 times less. This is a sales record and has become the most expensive camera in the world.

5. Unique technology fixing one frame on photographic film without delay was first implemented in 1978, created with the help of one military man from the United States. He was given the task of testing explosives on a donkey. True, he did it in the end with the benefit of photo-science - the animal's head was blown up, and this was recorded by a unique snapshot. This specialist connected a detonator attached to an explosive device in parallel with the camera shutter.

6. One of the most famous photographs of the legendary Nobel laureate in physics Einstein, in which he was captured, sticking out his tongue, was taken in 1951, when celebrating the birthday of the famous physicist. The physicist gave this photo to the presenter Smith, writing on the back of the photo: "You will like this gesture, because it is intended for all mankind."

7. One of the most expensive photographs belongs to Prince. His frame from a series of photographs titled "Cowboy" was sold in 2008 for 3,401,000 USD.

8. During the conquest of the summit of Everest by Soviet climbers in 1982, a camera called "Smena-Symbol" was used. After the end of the hike, the camera turned out to be in perfect working order. It is serviceable and in currently, and is kept as an exhibit in one of the Moscow museums.

9. Matthew B. Brady, photographer from the United States, the first person who managed to photograph himself on film, thus obtaining the first self-portrait.

10. The first underwater photographs were taken by Thompson. They were different low quality and were made in Weightmont, Britain.

11. The first photo depicting the Earth fully illuminated, known worldwide as "Blue Marble", was taken on December 7, 1972. The photo was taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft. At the time of the photo, the Sun was, as it were, behind the Earth, and therefore it turned out that the Earth was fully illuminated.

12. The progenitor of modern photographic paper was made of bitumen. On a thin plate of glass or copper, the so-called asphalt varnish was applied.

13. The first color photographs were taken in 1840. The black and white photographs were hand-painted with watercolors. Today, just imagine, printing a photo is an extremely affordable business, a photo can be printed at any time of the day, without leaving home and without overpaying for delivery, using one of the best servers. this direction copy center and photo laboratory RuCafe.

14. The first cameras had one distinctive feature - low speed shutters, and therefore for shooting in motion, shutters were used not with a central location, but with moving curtains. This ultimately led to the fact that photographs of vehicles in motion were obtained with wheels. oval... However, this was never considered a visual defect among photographers, because such images perfectly emphasized the speed of the subject being shot. Somewhat later, this manner of depicting speed and acceleration was adopted by cartoonists and creators of popular comics.

15. A singer from France performed at the time of the German occupation in special camps for prisoners of war in Germany, after which she took a photo with them. Further in Paris, the faces of the prisoners were cut out and used to create forged documents. Piaf then secretly handed over passports to the prisoners, thanks to which many prisoners were able to escape.

The first person who managed to take a "photographic" picture permanently was Joseph Niepce. The very first photograph in history is considered to be a "view from the window" frame, created in 1826. The snapshot process took 8 hours. (pictured above)

The first person to invent negative was Fox Talbot. This event took place in 1839. In the same year, Hippolyte Bayard presented printed photographs.

"Photo paper" was first made from asphalt. More precisely, asphalt varnish was applied to a copper or glass plate.

The obscura camera, which became the prototype of modern cameras, is still used today for the production of integrated circuits and as a special film camera.

The first photograph of a person

The first color photograph was taken in 1861 by James Maxwell, an English physicist.

The appearance of the first plates for color photography dates back to 1904, it was produced by the Lumiere company.

The first aerial photograph was taken by a French inventor in 1858. He shot Paris from a hot air balloon.

The first photographs in Russia appeared thanks to the physicist Yu.F. Fritzsche, he obtained photograms of leaves using the Talbot method.

The first color photographs, they are also the first "retouched" photographs, were created back in 1840. The chromaticity was obtained by coloring the image with watercolors.

In Russia, the first camera based on the daguerreotype theory was invented by Grekov back in 1840, that is, a year after the invention of photography. Alexey Grekov also experimented with photographs using the Talbot method on light-sensitive paper.

The first portrait with artificial lighting was created in 1879 by Levitsky, it took 15 seconds to create the frame.

The first cassette - one of the prototypes of modern photographic film - which had 12 sheets of photosensitive paper, and accordingly, required 12 frames, weighed 15 pounds.

First photomontage

The basis for the digital camera was invented in 1973. It was a charge-coupled device with which it was possible to obtain an image of 100x100 pixels. The first astronomical electronic photograph was taken with this device the following year.

The history of digital photography begins with the Mavica camera, created by Sony in 1981. The Mavica is the prototype of a modern interchangeable-lens system camera. The camera took pictures with a resolution of 570h490 pixels. Then the camera was positioned as a "static video camera", the result of which was not a video, but a static image.

Officially, the first digital camera in the world appeared as a result of the labors of the Kodak company. Then the image was created and recorded on an audio cassette. The image recording time from the moment the button was pressed was 22 seconds.

The term "megapixel" was first used in 1984.

The world's first autofocus for a SLR was used in the Polaroid camera in 1979, and in 1985 Minolta produced the camera that eventually became the standard for SLR cameras.

According to statistics, at present, only 2 out of 10 photographs taken with a digital camera are printed on paper.

The oldest camera was auctioned in Vienna in 2007, setting an all-time record as the most expensive camera ever sold at auction. The rare model is called the "Daguerrotype süßes Freres" and has been sold for almost eight hundred thousand US dollars. The starting price was $ 125,000.

1. The first person who managed to make a "photographic" picture permanent, that is, to fix the image was Joseph Niepce - this is a fact. The first photograph in the history of photography is considered to be the "View from the window", dated 1826 (see attached images). The exposure of the picture lasted 8 (!) Hours.

2. The first person to invent negative was Fox Talbot. This event took place in 1839. In the same year, Hippolyte Bayard presented the world with the first positive imprint.

3. The first "photographic paper" was made of asphalt. More precisely, asphalt varnish was applied to a copper or glass plate.

4. The camera obscura, which became the prototype of the modern camera, is used to this day for the production of integrated circuits, and as a special shooting television camera.

5. The first color photograph was taken in 1861 by James Maxwell, an English physicist.

6. The appearance of the first plates for color photography dates back to 1904, they were produced by the company "Lumiere".

7. The first aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by the French inventor Turnache. He shot Paris from a hot air balloon.

8. In 1858 Henry Peach Robinson performed the first photomontage, combining several negatives into one image.
The first and most famous composite photograph was called “Fading Away,” a combination of five negatives. The girl's death from tuberculosis is depicted (see attached images). The work caused a lot of controversy.

8. The first photos in Russia were taken by Yu.F. Fritzsche by the Talbot method.

10. For the first time, retouching pictures and, at the request of the customer, making them "colored", which was achieved by painting with watercolors, began in 1840.

11. In Russia, the first camera based on the theory of daguerreotype was designed by Grekov back in 1840, that is, a year after the invention of photography. Alexey Grekov also experimented with photographs using the Talbot method on light-sensitive paper.

12. The first portrait under electric light was shot in 1879 by Levitsky, which required a shutter speed of 15 seconds.

13. The first roller cassette - one of the prototypes of modern photographic film - on which 12 sheets of light-sensitive paper were placed, and, accordingly, 12 photographs, weighed 15 (!) Kilograms.

14.1946 - the first photograph from space. On October 24, 1946, a 35mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket took a picture 65 miles above the Earth.

15. The basis of the digital camera was invented in 1973. These were CCDs, with the help of which it was possible to obtain an image with a size of 100x100 pixels. The first astronomical electron photo was taken with such matrices as early as the next year.

16. The history of digital photography begins with the Mavica camera, which was released by Sony in 1981. Mavica is an almost full-fledged DSLR with interchangeable lenses and a resolution of 570x490 pixels. However, at that time it was considered a "static video camera", the result of which was not a video stream, but static pictures - separate frames.

17. Officially, the world's first digital camera is considered to be the development of Kodak, or rather Stephen Sesson. The camera he invented recorded the image on an audio cassette with magnetic tape. The image recording time from the moment the shutter button was pressed was 22 seconds.

18. The term "megapixel" was first used in 1984.

18. The world's first autofocus SLR camera was released by Polaroid in 1979, and in 1985 Minolta released a camera that eventually became the standard for SLR cameras (both the sensor and the motor were contained in the camera body).

20. According to statistics, to date, only 2 out of 10 pictures taken digital cameras, printed on paper, but printed in total digital photos in the world more than 65 billion. This means that soon this number will exceed the 66 billion mark, it will exceed the number of photographs in the world, printed from film (data for 2007).

21. The world's oldest camera was auctioned in Vienna in 2007, setting an all-time record for becoming the most expensive camera ever sold at auction. A rarity called "Daguerrotype Susses Freres" was sold for almost eight hundred thousand US dollars. The starting price was 100,000 euros.