CP History of Photography (Mod 2)

When did Kodak introduce film photography to the commercial market?

1880s

Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky invented which of the following?

Bellows camera

William Henry Fox Talbot invented which of the following?

Calotype

Autochrome Lumiere was which of the following?

A color process

What substance was the first photograph made from?

Bitumen

What was the first commercial photography process?

Daguerreotype

What camera introduced the concept of a "snap-shot"?

Brownie

What was the benefit of a calotype over a daguerreotype?

Multiple copies of the photograph could be made.

By the 1850s, daguerrotypes cost anywhere from 50 cents to 10 dollars apiece.

True

In the early days of photography, cameras were limited to professional photographers because of the knowledge needed to work the cameras and develop the images with various chemicals.

True

Frederick Scott Archer introduced the concept of combining artificial and natural light in the studio.

False

The term "photography" was first used in about 1839 by Sir John Herschel.

True

The collodion process used wet plates, which were glass plates that had been covered with a mixture of chemicals before being placed in the camera for the exposure.

True

The collodion process was significantly more expensive than the cost of a daguerreotype.

False

The calotype was named after the Greek word kalos, meaning "beautiful."

True

The pinhole camera was invented in 1811.

False

The technology that contributed to digital cameras came from spy satellites used during the Cold War.

True

Kodak initially included film processing in the cost of the film itself.

True

The daguerreotype process was inexpensive and easy for just about anyone to use.

False

In 1884, George Eastman created a dry gel on paper, or what we think of as film.

True

The first commercially available digital camera was which of the following?

Kodak DCS 100

Who created the first photograph?

Joseph Nicephore Niepce