The worlds first photo was taken by Joseph Niepce in France in 1826. It took an exposure time of 8 hours and is on an 8″x 6.5″ pewter plate. The photo has been on display at the University of Texas since 1964.
The above photo taken by Louis Ducos du Hauron in 1872 is said to be the worlds first color photograph. The photo is of a view of Angouleme in Southern France.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Fascinating! It’s interesting to note that a color photo in 1872 is actually quite good in quality all things considered.
June 30th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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June 30th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The french cannot be trusted! ;P
June 30th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Aw, c’mon, surely the world’s first photo was XXX.
June 30th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
ohhhh newyorkdude you are just toooooo naughty!!
lawl!
July 1st, 2008 at 2:13 am
How many Mega pixels was that first picture?
It is so amazing how technology has advanced but it is even more amazing how technology started.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Lol, would someone please slap Personal Trainer for this question?
But surely you did realise that this picture was taken some good 100 years before even the most trivial of computers was even invented. Pfffh, pixels….
July 24th, 2008 at 11:23 am
lol…megapixels
July 31st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Fake. The Color picture has a digital timestamp on it. Wtf.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Personal Trainer was obviously joking >_>
September 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Hebrew Hammer -
sometimes people wrote on the pictures as a reference.
I don’t believe that is a time stamp. Look how long the writing is, it is obviously a location and year. Time stamps are often just a day/month/year combo of some sort.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Great post, is that really a time stamp on the first color photo though?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Thank you evenj. No its not a time stamp it appears to be Louis Ducos name hand written along with a date . Thanks again!
October 14th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Interesting. It really looks old.!!