Stereoscopic Era

The stereoscopic era began in 1855.


Stereoscopic photography is 3d photography , which recreates the illusion of depth.
this is done by taking two images the same distance apart (2.5 inch's).   


the first  stereoscope equipment was not made till 1800s.  even thought it was mostly associated with Brewster , it was sit Charles Wheatstone who, in June 1839 he presented the idea to the royal Scottish society of arts.


Wheatstone's actual stereoscope is still preserved at the science museum in London. 


The stereoscope took off in a big way when  Queen Victoria and prince Albert observed one at the exhibition at the crystal palace. and Brewster presented her with a stereoscope. 


The London stereoscopic and photographic company came. into being in 1850 and continued for seventy years. they listed a hundred thousand stereo photographs  in their 1858 catalogue.


The stereoscopic society was founded in 1893 and is one of two societies operating in Britain , which continues to promote this form of photography. it is still in existence.

History of photography

These are some points from the history of photography that i find interesting. 

Research into photography history

·         Ancient times: Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole

·         1816: Nicéphore Niépce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper

·         1826: Niépce creates a permanent image

·         1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.

·         1855: Beginning of stereoscopic era

·         1855-57: Direct positive images on glass (ambrotypes) and metal (tintypes or ferrotypes) popular in the US.

·         1880: George Eastman, age 24, sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, New York. First half-tone photograph appears in a daily newspaper, the New York Graphic.

·         1888: First Kodak camera, containing a 20-foot roll of paper, enough for 100 2.5-inch diameter circular pictures.

·         1889: Improved Kodak camera with roll of film instead of paper

·         1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France

·         1934: Fuji Photo Film founded. By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in addition to film.

·         1936: Development of Kodachrome, the first color multi-layered color film; development of Exakta, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera

·         1963: First color instant film developed by Polaroid; Instamatic released by Kodak; first purpose-built underwater introduced, the Nikonos

·         1975 Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still 

·         1992: Kodak introduces PhotoCD

·         2000: Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone