THE CAMERA

On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera. Previous to Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by letting light draw the picture. Then, Louis Daguerre was able to reduce the exposure and keep the image from disappearing afterwards. Eventually, in 1889, Geaorge Eastman invented film with a base that could be rolled. At last, in the early 1940s, commercialy viable color films were brought to the market.