Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone – Eva Timothy

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The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later and major innovations beginning in the 19th century. Eva Timothy tracks the trajectory from the most rudimentary cameras to the ubiquity of them today.

Lesson by Eva Timothy, animation by London Squared Productions.

43 Comments
  1. Thomas Garrein says

    thraaaaaaaash videiooooo

  2. Cumhur BabaoÄŸlu says

    What about Oskar Barnack and Leica?

  3. hontau nekong says

    I love your commentary

  4. Dominic Fox says

    1:36 wtf?

  5. Dominic Fox says

    0:25 HE NEEDS SOME MILK!!!

  6. bang says

    Dat noodles

  7. Eastyboy Eastyboy says

    Don't like it

  8. Gérard COLLIN says

    dommage que ce ne soit pas en français ?

  9. the emperor incarnate says

    i know kung fo

  10. A Franca says

    BMO is that you?

  11. amer X says

    Thanks

  12. apenasmeucanal says

    Swear i read illuminatti in the title

  13. Chen Huang says

    Annnnd…. Selfies everywhere…

  14. amahler03 says

    Yes, Daguerre was actually Niepce's assistant and Niepce was the true inventor of photography. A lot of people give credit to Herschel, Talbot, and Daguerre. I have trouble finding videos with the correct information.

  15. daisyneptune says

    wonderful for kids, thanks!

  16. rlemieszek says

    Excellent piece. Here's more of a question than a criticism, though: what about Nicéphore Niépce with his View from the Window from 1826? Doesn't he predate Daguerre?

  17. Nuno Leitão says

    amazing!

  18. Messive Co says

    Awesome tut.
    😉

  19. errol arias says

    Excellent !

  20. youtubister says

    Splendid stuff, from concept to execution. Loved it 🙂

  21. tatitotatitota says

    Last time I took a photo it was 2008, I am really bad with cameras… x3

  22. mrfoxtalbot says

    Ah, I almost forgot, John Herschel also happened to be the one who suggested using the world "Photography".

  23. mrfoxtalbot says

    I´m missing a lot of people here. What about Niepce or Wedgewood? But even more important, you completely left out John Hershel, the guy who suggested using hypo to fix the images, as well as introducing the words "positive" and "negative" and inventing his own process, the cyanotype.

  24. mrfoxtalbot says

    Not wanting to sound partisan here, but Daguerre´s method was only successful in the decades inmediately after the invention but by the 1860 it was a dead end (except, funny enough in some parts of the US). The wet plate method has actually more to do with Talbot´s process.

  25. Ariel Matias says

    go kodak, go film fuck digital!

  26. Crystal A says

    Yay Kodak! Sorry I have to have some local pride 🙂 (in the Rochester ny area)

  27. YoungTheFish says

    Love this narrator, straight forward, no force humor and over exatratted emotion yet still entertaining.

  28. Joshua Pazos says

    CHEESE 😀

  29. Esther Sanchez del Moral says

    Opino lo mismo, falta nombrar a Niépce. Agradecería subtitulos. La animación es muy simpática

  30. Lenupet says

    Dear TEDEducation-Team,
    you forgot to mention Joseph Nicéphore Niépce!!! He is one of the inventors of photography as well.

  31. wearelegion says

    So that's why they never smile!

  32. Dan Galman says

    So that's why they can sketch so well!

  33. NanaV73 says

    I love your accent. It's so rich! 🙂 Great video ^^

  34. cgarcia1196 says

    I thiught the title said illuminati photographs 0-o

  35. j0nnyb0y54 says

    CHEESE!!!

  36. JDN says

    Going to ask this same question!!

  37. Ada K. says

    And that's my three years of photography club in high school in a nutshell.

  38. Mohammed Osman says

    I always thought it was magic.

  39. ariadnasfantasy says

    Awesome!

  40. Santiago Dege says

    It is because a chemical sensible to light.

  41. William Wilson says

    Incorrect. Movies made on film are a series of photos but not videos. Image sensors essentially create a magnetic field that is used to arrange magnetic particles on the tape to line up according to the frequencies coming from the sensors. This is a linear process. It's more complicated than this but there's not enough room for details…just research it online.

  42. TheaDragonSpirit says

    Amazing invention. They should do one on videos, and then on sound! 🙂
    You know so people can see how films became real.

  43. Dylan Sumner says

    4:22 I have that phone!!!!

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