I had the opportunity to scan a friend's historical family negatives from glass plates that had never been printed. It was a priceless moment for the family to see their ancestors for the first time

At RIT I took a course on the History of Photogaphy taught by Beaumont Newhall. It served me well, I went on to have a 40 year career as a photographer at the NIH, working in the same building as Dr. Fauci. I started experimenting with photograph in 10th grade, a good friend at the time thought the term "fixer" was hilarious.

YES!!! I wish more young photographers watch in where Photography got it's start instead of bragging of their gear, and do not know what is the difference of an F/Stop Opening than to a Broadway Opening. MORE MORE of these videos, LOVE THEM!!!!! 😃😃🎞📸

Thank you for putting this together. Very informative.

I enjoyed watching this so much. History of photography is beautiful. 👏🏽

Thank you for sharing this much enjoyed video. Back in the early-mid 80's I had the pleasure of developing a few rolls of B&W Kodak film & using a 3 solution process for making enlargements on a used enlarger purchased at camera store in Patterson, NJ. Fun stuff. Still have my first & only film camera & sometimes think about getting back into it for fun.

Thank you for this excellent overview. I brought back many wonderfull memories. I used to see the "Kodak Tower from my ninth flooe dorm room in Nathanial Rochester Hall. Friends and I played around with the prototype Xerox camera at the Eastman House. (I wish I had saved the images I made.)

It wasn’t until around the 1900’s that the camera could go beyond reproducing an image and was able to capture the decisive moment. Now you were not only able to reproduce a subject’s image but were able to capture a decisive event or a decisive behavior as well. Photography was now redefined from not merely being a resemblance of an images but was now truly able to capture decisive events. An event now able to be burned into memory.

Wonderfully presented! Concise, and informative

Wonderful and informative video. Thank you for uploading. 🙂

Wonderfully succinct chronology. I think it would be hard to follow for someone with no prior knowledge. It served as a perfect refresher for me.

In 8th grade /1971/ I was the school student photographer. Using the Agfa and an early Brownie camera. I loved using the different chemicals and using the enlarger to create b/w images onto various paper paper textures!! Today, I use the iPhone 14 Pro Max. I seen vacuum tube radios to everything digital!! 📹📲

Long live film photography!

Fascinating!

Thanks for the upload

very good video. very very good!

THANKS A LOT. REALLY BEAUTIFUL AND VERY DIDACTIC

Excellent!

The notion of the quantum window applies to the camera obscura through the wave function collapse upon observation, although it's not inverted reality, it just is reality existing as a phenomenon independent of what's out there but causally interdependent through verification.

All I see are a group of people really passionate about the history of photography.

Quite good very informative

A great video. Two things mentioned that are of great importance are how photography made people's ideas of time change and how digital photography emphasizes the differences between the mechanical process of digital photography with the analog process that requires crafting the image, man vs. the machine if you will.

Agree we need a 25 mega pixel rangefinder Lumix, but keep the EVF very useful in bright conditions

That was pretty cool. I love to imagine maybe an ancient inventor stumbled upon a prototype even earlier. How sick would it be to have ancient egypt or "Atlantis" in photo.

Great little history. One key takeaway: Digital is fragile. Print your photos if you want them to last!

It fascinates thinking ,that how many decades who knows centuries would have been taken to click just one picture full of memories,affection(connatative) Nowadays the meaning of clicking a photo is totally different with so much advance cam. And a person can click thousands of pics but the feel in that days must have been overwhelming

Great!

Silver was a key material in developing some of the first publicly available photographs as a layer of silver was put thinly over a copper sheet and polished to a mirror finish and was treated with iodine fumes to make it light sensitive. Once exposed for a long time would produce a yellow colour on the glass which could then be treated with other chemicals to keep the image. Very interesting and photos wouldn’t be the way they are today if not for silver. I love photography 📸🎞️ also awesome interesting vids 👍👍👍

Fox Talbot was an aristocrat but he was not a member of the House of Lords.

Very nice in the end sad but true. You missed the fact photos where taken on the moon. Thanks for sharing.

At some point, people will realize they don't have access to those wonderful photos their family members have been taking on their phones for the last few years and going forward. Our only hope? Print your favorite family photos. Other wise they are are hidden from all on some far away server or worse, on a long discarded phone no one can get to.

Thank you😭😭😭

thanks

I again took up photography as a hobby but this this time I leaned it as digital imagery. I began again educating myself to modern photographic imagery by attempting to make the digital data image look like a analogue photograph. Grain was acceptable in an image only so long as it replicated the analogue grain that I had in my old Rollieflex TLR Camera. This quest to replicate digital imagery as analogue is a misguided futile endeavor. Today’s finest imagery at its best whether artistic or journalistic is digital. We must face the reality that analogue is now becoming an outdated artifact from our ancient historical past.

now we have Instagram and Duckfaces and the art of Photography turned into a FREAKSHOW !!!

You forgot Fujifilm who developed the digital camera at exactly the same time!!!

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Digital can not be fully appreciated until reproduced as the analog print.

Coolest subject Worst voice! Miss peter Thomas

Everyone can take a photograph but that does not make them a photographer.

My photography class is making me watch this shit😒

I can’t believe you have had at least 8 separately space commercials.!!! What is wrong with you!!!!

and the Holography...

Today billions of photos are taken daily. Only a very few of those will not last threw time. Unless digital photos are printed they will not last.

Everything excellent, except for the part of Kodak trying to facewash its big flop in digital photography.

You have too many and too frequent commercials!! You are not considering the viewer and t makes you seem greedy. Commercials interrupt the flow of the vdeo. I will not purchase any product shown here.

But all light emits heat on some wavelength....