Question

What is a calotype? What happens in this process?

4.What was the Kodak Brownie?

5.What did Richard Maddox invent? Why was this important?

6.Where did the technology for digital images come from?

7.What are two different stock image licenses? How are they different?

8.What did George Eastman develop? Why was this important?

9.What do you think would have been the hardest part of using the cameras and photographic processes that existed before the twentieth century?

Answer 1

1. A. A pinhole camera has no lens. The Greek philosopher Aristotle, described a pinhole camera in about 330 BC when he questioned how the image of the sun in the box remained circular even when the hole in the box was square.

2. A. In the 1820s, the first picture was produced by a French inventor. Joseph Nicephore Niepce. He used a pewter plate and a material known as bitumen of Judea.

3. A. Calotype, which was used of paper coated with silver iodine. This process contained sensitizing paper with a silver salt solution and exposing it to light. Doing that created a negative image of the subject, which could then be used to create contact prints where the light and shadows were reversed to show the image.

4. A. It was intended to be a camera that could be used by anyone.

5. A. Developed a way to use gelatin instead of glass for the negatives. A darkroom tent did not need to be used with the camera and the process of exposure and negatives was much more manageable.

6. A. Don’t understand question

7. A. Not sure.

8. A. Kodak. Popularized the handheld box camera.

9. A. All the time wait for the photos to be sent back from the company.

10. A. George Eastman. Because he made the cameras portability much easier.

Answer 2

4. This process, also known as a Talbotype, was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot and involves a paper coated with silver iodine. This paper was exposed to light, creating a negative image of the subject. The paper was then used to create contact prints where the light and shadows were reversed. This process produced an image.

5. The Kodak Brownie, introduced in 1900, was a popular, affordable, and portable camera invented and produced by the Eastman Kodak Company. This camera used film rolls, and once the roll was finished, you just had to mail it to the Kodak company and they would send your developed images, and an extra roll. The Kodak Brownie had an exposure button, and a wheel to wind the film. I’m guessing that these cameras were called “Brownies” because that were made out of a brown material, most likely some kind of metal. This camera wasn’t used very often by professional photographers. They preferred cameras that required dry plates.

6. Richard Maddox developed a different technique to create negatives using gelatin instead of glass. This technique made the process of photo development easier and less complicated, because a darkroom wasn’t required to develop images.

7. This technology came from spy satellites invented during the Cold War. NASA also uses it.

8. The two main kinds of stock image licenses are Royalty Free and Rights Managed. The price of a Royalty Free image is determined by its size, while the price of a Rights Managed image depends on what you’re going to use it for. After purchasing a Royalty Free image, you can use it however many times you’d like, but if you buy a Rights Managed photo, you can only use it a certain number of times.

9. George Eastman developed the film roll. Film was more convenient, cheaper, and overall better than the metal plates and chemicals previously used by photographers. Waiting to see if your photographs turned out was probably the hardest part of using twentieth century cameras.

I think that George Eastman had the largest impact on photography, because he invented the first portable camera that anyone could use. He also developed the film roll, which is still used by professional photographers to this day.

I hope that this helps! I know that this is and old question, but if you got a low grade on this assessment, you can easily resubmit it with these answers. I got 100% on this assignment, so you probably should too. :)