Thursday, February 14, 2013

Question 1465

Focussing onto a 20 cm × 25 cm (7.9 in × 9.8 in) pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, a mixture similar to asphalt, hardening the bitumen mixture by exposing it to about 8 hours of light, while the unexposed portions remained water soluble and then washing them away with a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum gave this. What is it called?


7 Answers:

Vinay Handa said...

The earliest surviving photograph of a scene from nature taken with a camera obscura-Invention of Photography by Nicephore Niepce.

Anonymous said...

View from window, first ever photograph...

-Sukanto

Harshal Peshne said...

answer is Heliography - meaning 'sun writing'

Soumya said...

Oldest surviving photograph. View from a window

Anonymous said...

This is the first photograph taken. Not sure exactly, Window at La'Gras or something.

Rudhra said...

heliography...

Migom Doley said...

First Permanent Photograph...by the process of heliography...I reckon.