The first picture ever taken (1826)

rughmanchoo · 9 months

The ultimate repost.

Bubblebath_expert · 9 months

I raise you with the oldest recording of a human voice.

oza98 · 9 months

View from the Window at Le Gras (La cour du domaine du Gras) was the first successful permanent photograph, created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes.

Nicéphore Niépce captured the photo with a camera obscura focused onto a sheet of 20 × 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. As a result of the 8-hour exposure, sunlight illuminates the buildings on both sides.

chrispdx · 9 months

A Star Destroyer?

Jani3D · 9 months

I present to you, "Boulevard du Temple", taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre.jpg

Notice the black figure on the corner of the street? That would be the first person to be photographed. Someone that was getting their shoes polished.

InMySpeedo · 9 months

The first pornographic photo was taken just weeks later, once film became a reliable medium.

latitnow · 9 months

ENHANCE

shortcord · 9 months

terrible resolution

F7Uup · 9 months

How many megapixels is that?

mansionfullofpandas · 9 months

They have the original piece of bitumen on display at UT in Austin. Its really breath taking.

KingVikram · 9 months

This was clearly taken by a ham sandwich.

CantGetRidOfABomb · 9 months

Looks shopped.

larseparsa · 9 months

Niepce didn't get nearly as much credit for this invention as he should have had in his lifetime. Daguerre has been hailed for over 150 years. I'm glad history now accepts Niepce as the inventor of photography.

liberalwhackjob · 9 months

This one was taken by the same guy a year previous:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce_Oldest_Photograph_1825.jpg

It is a photo of a painting or engraving.

And it still isn't thought to be the first.... just the earliest surviving.

Ameisen · 9 months

Graphics can NEVER get better than this!

Clit_Commander · 9 months

No kitties?

SirKnightofDerp · 9 months

What a coincidence that the first picture ever taken was of a UFO. Who would have thought?

dandello · 9 months

It kind of looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Riresurmort · 9 months

its not even in colour

haltedconfusion · 9 months

How many shades of gray are in this image?

skurk · 9 months

Incidentally, this is also the world's first (and most complicated) connect-the-dots puzzle.

theyoyomaster · 9 months

Does anyone else think it looks like the ship from Smallville?

GrooveCombo · 9 months

Can somebody photoshop enhance this?

oodledoodley · 9 months

Looks like it was taken with an ipad.

AbsoluteZero255 · 9 months

This proves it. Every single image ever taken is on imgur.

Fergi · 9 months

Fun fact: you can see this at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center.

tiersy · 9 months

If anyone's got a HD version PM me.

majistrate · 9 months

He needs to take the ISO down... Rookie.

wsmithe · 9 months

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39zhCvPBprI

stumbled upon this a year or so ago...absolutely terrifying.

Shaosil · 9 months

Does anyone else see a sad loch-ness monster chewing on a star destroyer?

Kelliente · 9 months

The quality reminds me of the images being extracted directly from peoples' brains in recent experiments. So.... less than 200 years from now we'll have high quality images of people's thoughts.

Subduction · 9 months

Just to put this in perspective, when this picture was taken Beethoven was working on the last of his string quartets and John Quincy Adams was President of the United States.

DrMalaclypse7 · 9 months

This picture is housed at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. I've seen it several times. Pretty nifty. If you're in Austin, go see it. It's cheap (free if you are/were a student).

tangoshukudai · 9 months

In honor of this photo, someone should take a photo of the same thing today with the worlds best camera, and compare the differences.

hownowbrowncow69 · 9 months

Star Cruiser from Star Wars

dyoano · 9 months

Dat resolution.

meantism · 9 months

source?

4Tenacious_Dee4 · 9 months

I think the lighting is a bit out

Tom_Greens_Left_Nut · 9 months

The Loch Ness Monster's secret hideout?

pulifrici · 9 months

kinda grainy and out of focus

rms2219 · 9 months

I was really hoping it would have been a cat.

Cutsprocket · 9 months

someone playing the piano?

a_live_otter · 9 months

Looks better than the photos my camera phone takes.

CP70 · 9 months

Flight of the Navigator is real!

Early93rd · 9 months

Could someone clean up this image a little bit?

1n2n3n4JAZZHANDS · 9 months

Does anyone else see a sound technician working on a large audio mixer wearing a hat with a chin strap?

Jani3D · 9 months

Doubt it.

NanoPope · 9 months

ive seen this picture in person at a museum

FilterOutBullshit3 · 9 months

Looks like my dad's bromoil photos.

knight_talker · 9 months

It's like watching TV in Standard Def

runwild · 9 months

What is that? 0.01 megapixels?

drysill · 9 months

Wonderful stuff, the daguerreotype, I have a portrait of my likeness captured by one of these devices.

dog_in_the_vent · 9 months

This was decades before the technique of pointing a camera at a mirror while not looking directly at the mirror was perfected.

kartoos · 9 months

You know this probably belongs in r/oldpics or r/historypics, as it is r/pics is cluttered with stuff like this ಠ_ಠ

siktirici · 9 months

no, its not. first daguerreotype.

crushmagnet · 9 months

Can anyone talented restore this?

ryumast3r · 9 months

For anyone wondering what it is a picture of, it is a view out of a building - it is called the "View from the Window at Le Gras." Because of the 8-hour exposure time, the sunlight is illuminating both sides of the building.

zionxgodkiller · 9 months

psh, not even in HD ಠ_ಠ

Darktidemage · 9 months

it's a UFO

popepeterjames · 9 months

FTFY: Picture of a picture of the first picture ever taken.

Astrokiwi · 9 months

That's a decent shot but it's a little grainy - try it with a wider aperture and a lower ISO, it should come out a little crisper.

ricehq · 9 months

It looks shopped. I can tell by some of the pixels.

herpichj · 9 months

the first picture ever taken did not have people in it.

iambookus · 9 months

Now this photo should be worth 4 million dollars.

Insomniac23 · 9 months

Has anyone ever tried to find this location?

ragnaroktog · 9 months

Ahhh... reminds me of scrambled porn in the olden days.

etravus · 9 months

needs some serious Photoshopping

ryblew · 9 months

kind of sucks. bad photography

Napalm_Star21 · 9 months

The first picture ever taken was an imperial star destroyer?

Xtremeskierbfs · 9 months

star wars a-wing??

dasberd · 9 months

Looks like the pictures my cell phone takes.

dafunkmasta · 9 months

It looks shopped, I can tell by the pixel. I have looked at many pixels in my day and that one looks a little too processed.

whollo918 · 9 months

DUDE THIS QUALITY BLOWS

WTF

ZeroDivided714 · 9 months

and life on earth emerges from the darkness

temudgin · 9 months

it was not the first photograph ever taken, but instead, it is popularly regarded as the first (which is debated) photograph on a medium that could be preserved! other people took pictures before him but their mediums werent permanent.

conanarama · 9 months

Anyone want to try their hand at cleaning up the image??

pharmaceutics · 9 months

Someone obviously didn't go to art school...

magylo · 9 months

Well if you saw Godzilla building a Super Star Destroyer you'd invent a camera and take a picture too.

applebit · 9 months

Looks photoshopped.

Dorama1427 · 9 months

UFO!

Nutella_the_Hun · 9 months

Where's the Rule 34 on this one?

behaaki · 9 months

Pics or it... Oh.

umbama · 9 months

High ISO

kelachris · 9 months

Man, graphics were terrible back then.

robotwarlord · 9 months

This looks photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels and from seeing a whole load of photoshopped pictures.

RubyBlye · 9 months

The first known PHOTOGRAPH ever taken. before that pictures were taken through cameras obscura by artists tracing the projected image.

LessLikeYou · 9 months

I could fap to that...

headshot95 · 9 months

looks photoshopped

JTDeuce · 9 months

That looks like the super stardestroyer.

[deleted] · 9 months

We've come a long way world.

Ariadne06 · 9 months

I've seen this photograph in person. It's at the Ransom Center at UT Austin. It's very interesting conceptually, but the quality is pretty much exactly the same as what's pictured here. Pretty neat to see it in real life though!

samalex1701 · 9 months

This used to be on display at a museum on UT campus in Austin, tx, but not sure if it's still there. Very impressive to see it in real life.

a_22766 · 9 months

pfft my camera is way better

hazleapricot · 9 months

This was on display on my campus for awhile.

Howard_Beale · 9 months

This is actually the first published photo. The photographer actually took one before this, but it was of his thumb!

Sweeede · 9 months

ALIENS

snakrause · 9 months

ENHANCE

sizchark · 9 months

Which one is Jesus? - From, the South

chaosintestinal · 9 months

Am i the only person to see the obiwan's starfighter ship in the middle of the photo ?

Pravusmentis · 9 months

I see....

Rage_Comic_Guy · 9 months

16 bit

ninjagorilla · 9 months

better than some of that emo photography shit

jammz · 9 months

volcano420 · 9 months

It's George Lucas standing on a balcony next to set table of baby meat.

Duxhog · 9 months

So high def!

Sindragon · 9 months

Rubbish. He should have considered another career.

Mthomo732 · 9 months

Definitely shopped

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