The word photography is derived from two Greek words, one meaning light, and the other meaning writing.

Though you might not believe it, the process of photography has been around for several hundreds of years, but wasn’t actually brought to use until 1827. A man named Niepce (Nee-ps) took, and successfully developed what we know today as a photograph. After taking the photo on a piece of material that hardened, he let it sit for eight hours to fully develop, and even then it was hard to tell what it was.

However, John Corbutt didn’t produce the first photographic film until 1888. This film was highly flammable, and caused many problems with processing companies and was replaced in the 1930’s with a less hazardous kind.

When photo processing was first used, it took many hours to develop one picture. I was also a very expensive process. Dagurre was the first person to discover it, which was purely accidental. He placed a picture in his cupboard on top of plates and when he returned, the image was on his plates. He concluded that it was because of mercury in the cabinet. Fox Tallbot later discovered the process of latent

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