As we all know, the likes on Facebook are the new cool. Those blue little thumbs-up totally make our day. The Facebook library contains 140 billion photos while Instagram plays host to 60 billion uploads every day! Everyone loves clicking photos or getting clicked. Social networking sites are flooded with all kinds of pictures, from memorable events in someone’s life to people staring intensely into their bathroom mirrors! But have you ever pondered over how we walked this distance from pinhole cameras to the DSLRs? Don’t forget the front cameras in our cell phones which help us take the ‘cool’ ‘duck-face’
selfies!
There’s no doubt that the camera is one of the most revolutionary inventions. It all started with camera obscure - a device that used a pinhole to project images upside down. It was used by a mathematician, Reiners Gemma Frisius to view a solar eclipse way back in 1544. Further, it was Alexander Wolcott who made it possible to click photos which didn't fade away. Later, Joseph Nicéphore Nicépce used a sliding wooden box to take pictures, and thus the first portable camera came into existence.
The most remarkable innovation in the history of camera was the introduction of photographic films by George Eastman in 1885. A high school dropout, a messenger, an office boy at an insurance company and a book keeper at a bank. This was the job profile of Eastman, who had absolutely no clue about cameras! And yes, it was this very man who launched his own, one-of-its-kind company - KODAK! Their slogan read, “You press the button, we do the rest." He further went on to develop a type of flexible film. And this film was then adapted by Thomas Edison for use in motion picture camera, thus propelling Eastman's success further more. His Brownie camera (which was worth just $1!) went viral as soon as it hit the market. This Brownie camera was a dream come true for all amateur photographers and the craze still continues. (Scroll up to the "duck faced selfies" part for confirmation).
So now, every time you upload pictures on the Internet, you'll know that along with them tags along a very interesting story. Click!
As we all know, the likes on Facebook are the new cool. Those blue little thumbs-up totally make our day. The Facebook library contains 140 billion photos while Instagram plays host to 60 billion uploads every day! Everyone loves clicking photos or getting clicked. Social networking sites are flooded with all kinds of pictures, from memorable events in someone’s life to people staring intensely into their bathroom mirrors! But have you ever pondered over how we walked this distance from pinhole cameras to the DSLRs? Don’t forget the front cameras in our cell phones which help us take the ‘cool’ ‘duck-face’
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