the first picture ever taken

[cymrutroll]

Its shit 

[jarjon76]

@cymrutroll So is your comment, troll.

[LiveThug21]

just amazingg

[TCfoxs]

HD!

[Miroslawsnketr]

whats doing that DJ on the photo...mixing for some samurai's?

[imalamboman12]

I thought it was a screamer.

[ericinghammontevista]

im just curious, what is this?

[GemCan78]

@ericinghammontevista To answer your question, the picture is of a rooftop, overlooking a courtyard, taken from a 5th floor schoolhouse in France...

[EvilPoet85]

Lots of people were inventing cameras around this time, but history teach us that we can only give credit to one person. Rarely is one person responsible for great inventions. (althoug it happens)

[plushsnail]

I'm kind of impressed with how judgmental and dismissive people are being about this picture - this guy helped to invent photography, for crying out loud; it's an invention that has had an incalculably huge effect on the modern world. Have you invented anything that will profoundly influence society for hundreds of years? No? Then maybe you're not really in a place to judge...

[Ronaldinhoo11]

So what's the thing in the middle? A giant cheese?

[trentoboy260]

that just dissapoints me because i mean WTF is that a cheese in the middle of the arena in harry potter 2 haha

[bestinnorway]

true

[HeyArgh]

if i had that kind of picture in my cam, i would simply delete it....

[PoliMeim]

It is pretty hard to believe that this is the farthest back that we can go to seeing what things actually looked like. It is also pretty hard to believe that everything prior to this exact date in 1826 was purely in the hands of a painter. Just amazing I think.

[CoachG1000]

"That's bullshit, I'm not paying for this one..."

Overheard at CVS Pharmacy later that day.

[freoltic]

I think this man is the human being the largest in the history of mankind. Because without him there would be no film, television, internet, camera, and all inventions related to such inventions. respect Mr Nicephore Niepce

[freoltic]

Can you stay 8 hours still, I do not think. so he took the court of his house

[freoltic]

the photographer called Nicephore Niepce. it is a French. He took this photo through the window on the first floor of his house in Burgundy, but it seems he took a picture of a table in 1822

[thecitizenme]

im pretty sure thats an F/A-18 Hornet :/

[SignorThomasino]

doesn't look that old..

[humanidt]

i wanna say that its a picture of a dam.

[EmmetEarwax]

I think it's a dusty courtyard, but ,...

The first photograph was in COLOR, taken about 1800 (!!) and was the spectrum of a star, taken at the Grenwich Observatory, a prism played the light on a specially prepared silver nitrate plate, and the way the chemical decomposed preserved the bright colors in chemical developing. (difraction grating etched into the emulsion by the light and developing).The plate is carefully preserved to this day.

[JustComments90]

It kinda looks like a picture from inside a small town. I bet they were taking boatload of pictures just out of being excited. I'd get just as excited getting a BLT. lol

[me3tv]

8 hours exposure would have muddied the shadows but the basid forms are retained. I would give this inventor a B- . It could have been an A with a better lens and exposing one hour - same time of day over the course of 8 days.

[me3tv]

Where EXACTLY is it . It would be great to see a duplicate of the location today. I am guessing the solid structure was thought out as a subject for the stillness required in the camera as well as the subject to expose the silver - or whatever.

[ForeverComplaining]

Dam shame these c*nts couldnt of invented it about 50 years earlier. I always wanted to see what Marie Antoinette really looked like. Would of been better in colour too!

[westinmcleod]

can i trade me t2i for that camera ?

[TheRockinvinny]

Wrong Film scientist Vincenzo Ruello has discovered an photographic image of Jesus Christ 3 days before the Shroud of Turin see main clip in channel First Photograph Ever Taken Historical Discovery

[piip4]

@TheRockinvinny

Take your religious garbage somewhere where people might be stupid enough to believe it. People like you are a disgrace, trying to rewrite history...

[rsscsa01]

@TheRockinvinny wow you are stupid

[RockForLife02]

This ain't the first, this is the first picture made in france.

[CrASYmUZIk]

@RockForLife02 Wich , this is france :o

[Ullyvean]

Did some searching on the Inet, and this really seems to be in 1826 THE first Photo ever taken. The object was irrelevant for taking the picture, ofcourse: first picture taken, ever, in history of mankind. If i try realizing, to me the object might as well be just a boring brick.

[Unique2doU]

Required eight hrs. of exposure? So you're saying that person in the picture stood there for eight hours, maybe walked away for a few minutes, and then back again? He only could of done it that way, and remembered his pose upon his return. That is the main reason you cannot believe everything you read!!!

[TheBlizzardcat]

photography invented 1839.

anyone explain how possible before this date?

[JESSIEEDSELL21]

@TheBlizzardcat photography was invented in 1826, not everything you read or research in text books is true Thomas edison is credited for creating the motion picture camera, however several artists before him such as the Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies were tinkering with cinema long before him

[1958debs]

@JESSIEEDSELL21 But, as with many of the earliest photographs, it was too fuzzy due to the long time needed for exposure.

[d14d]

@TheBlizzardcat This was probaly the prototype that lead to the advancement which came in 1839

[ericawesomo]

@TheBlizzardcat  Chuck Norris was the photographer.

[KingsPowerSteel]

What in god's name did the photographer think? "Hey I'm just taking the first picture ever, making it one of the most important photographs in the history of mankind. Okay I'll fotograph some guys that randomly hang around."

[krstnlhjt]

@KingsPowerSteel That might be exactly what the photographer was thinking. Do you think that the photographer was trying to find the ultimate place or best pose or the perfect lighting etc. to take the first picture ever? Just curious

[MelissaTicky]

Very cool just wish i knew what it was.. mystery.

[TheCreator4]

It took 8 hours of exposure ..? Its like the bird in the camera in the flinstones

[pasmoressj2]

1826 Bethoven was still Alive!

[orphyborphy]

@pasmoressj2 That's exactly what I thought :O

[Chubstanley]

its a bloke with a large piece of gouda in his hands



[hallzie1nick]

haha i love the HD Quality 1080p :)

[MrPetewingnut]

I remember seeing this in a good mag years ago (70s) called "Parade"

It is a photo of a roof top.

[2tur]

@jaspertheredn Ahahaha. Ah-... Kids these days.. You're calling the photographer a horrible horrible name because of what he took a photograph of?

[JumpOffACliff100]

why couldnt the just taken a normal picture of a face or a plant

[JESSIEEDSELL21]

@JumpOffACliff100 why cant you just accept the picture for what it is and realize that its the first photograph ever taken and stop criticizing it.

[JumpOffACliff100]

@JESSIEEDSELL21 because it was to be a picture we could always remember. and i dont know wat the fuck this is

[multiyapples]

@JumpOffACliff100 it was the dudes balcony

[JoSeVeNJo]

@JumpOffACliff100 Wtf this is... -_-'. Well you got to be stupid or completly brainless you fkin t-shirt... It's the first PICTURE EVER. That's it! Blacony or not, this guy have made more than you'll ever do in your life so respect THAT for what it is you little superficial teen... Not only this guy invented the camera, but we almost own him the invention of the movie because it all started with the photography...

[JumpOffACliff100]

@JoSeVeNJo fag

[IVIerkBlitz]

@JESSIEEDSELL21 To be fair it is a fucking awful picture.

[chrisjarram]

@JESSIEEDSELL21 lol oooooooooo... meeeeeooow!

[malcolmmorin]

@JESSIEEDSELL21 What is the picture of, Exactly? I believe i see a man beside what looks like a coffin, But that's just me.

[probemunky]

@JESSIEEDSELL21 Photographys all about the negatives ;)

[MrBeautifulba1]

@JumpOffACliff100 Because back in 1839 there were no plants and peoples faces looked alot like spatchulas. I understand your pain.

[DanikaJadeee]

1826! That's amazing. Seriously, I wouldn't have a clue how to make a can opener for god's sake.

[TheProjectMJ]

I wonder what the photo was of. I also wonder what the photographers thought of this. Probably not knowing any better I wonder if they were amazed or impressed?

[Herbsandspices100]

That was taken during the enlightenment! Before Victoria was even crowned!

BTW: It's hard to make out what's the photo of?

[adamdd09]

its a garden from an obsucre angle. i think the white slab is the lawn reflecting sunlight is so bright coz early cameras picked up light better than dark things hence the bright lights used in early cameras

[wordupassholes]

this photo is actually better than most things. I want this on a shirt

[crazyknight2008]

wow only 5 years after napoleon died. very interesting thanks for upload..but what is that slab in the middle ? any ideas ?

[SchMeisterMi]

@crazyknight2008 Maybe its water and the reason for the water to be in a a straight line formation is because it might be a dock or a port area.

[freoltic]

@crazyknight2008 it is a roof

[xDONTxTREADxONxMEx]

This looks better than my cell phone camera. Why do they put such shitty cameras in cell phones? 

[ultravioletgaia]

wats dat? i dont get it

[mazen42007]

nikon is better



[kickalion]

hahahhahahaha you took this photo with potato? buahahha

[bphatboyjohn123]

@kickalion no this is actually the longest existing photo ever taken, from france, circa 1826. . read up

[TrollReviewer]

this is actually a failed transmission by the rogue squadron. As you can see they were transmitting a picture of a mark IV imperial star destroyer (triangular shape) but instead there transmission failed and was sent to us. thank you for your time

[BeastlySeth]

@TrollReviewer No.

[gh30]

I'm sure many others have pointed this out but it wasn't the first photograph taken, it was the first in which the image was fixed.

[bphatboyjohn123]

@gh30 its the first in meaning its only one that lasted, the first were actually destroyed by accident. .

[DjOxymoron]

today i take photos with my telephone...wow...

[dationnation]

this photo is the reprint of the original, search for the first picture even taken and see the original. Stop calling the past ''stupid or scary'' what's so scary about the past?

I would love to see our forefathers again just so they can put a boot up most these kids A**es in our country today! At least the first pic was taken of some scenery, and not their butt.. haha!

[fjfjfq]

esto lo había leído, una ovejita del ganado fue el primer documento fotógráfico, que bonita jeje

[4thel0ve]

Wow, biggest slice of pizza ever!

[Nakor420ish]

So that settles it.The camera was invented by a guy who kept seeing this ufo and needed a way to prove it to people. yep, case closed.

[MrNightOwL100]

thanks to anybody who preserves anything as best as possible in it's origional, unaltered untouched condition, and thanks for putting it up. Crude renditions like this were the forerunners of your cell phones that have a mini digital camcorder that can record in high definition. Respect your past. Somebody 200 years ago did this for you.

[EdgeRatedR007]

looks like you are watching a dream 

[majician782]

spaceship!!!

[squamish4244]

Napoleon had only been dead for five years!

[PopGracewood]

when I look at this picture, my first thought is always that it looks like a motorboat

[PopGracewood]

wehn I look at this picture, my first thought is always that it looks like a motorboat

[20rhubarb]

the first picture every taken! spooky, but amazing :)

[whole27]

well it would help if we knew what the fuck the picture is of!

[To652]

Wow! Whats this in the picture?

[CommanderTarkin]

It's a Star Destroyer!

[chichcabob]

these days, we would think the picture is edited. ;p

[undisputed4life]

I found Waldo.

[mcdom89]

8 hours for a pic wow

[LadyOfRawFood]

this is a view out of a window onto the surrounding buildings. The big white spot in the middle of the picture is the roof of the building across from the photographer, with the sunlight hitting it. You can also see a tower structure of some sort to the right of this, and on the far left of the photo, some sort of wall with a tower at the end.

[Quikquik98]

It's a good thing that the guy who took this photo picked the right time to take it. At any other time of day: the earth's rotation would have royally messed up the lighting and nothing in this photo would be recognizable so its fortunate that the photographer picked just the right window of time for the camera to get its exposure. Needless to say that it would have been agonizingly boring for a person to stand in front this camera for 8 hours to get a picture of himself.

[APC9040]

What is on the picture, that triangle thingy. anyone know.......?

[enemybowtie]

@APC9040 its a building

[Satituite]

@APC9040 I THINK it's water, not sure though.

[NaziFrocioNigga]

@APC9040 I don't know but I can't wait until they make a poster of this.

[bluemoonmanchester]

@APC9040 Many said that was the illuminati base area.

[supermark64]

what... is it

[ItIsRainingBlood]

@supermark64 View from the Window at Le Gras :)

[mrkrisis]

Wow. That's almost 200 years ago. A little creepy.

[AlienBeliever897]

If you look at it the right way, the big triangular thing in the middle kind of looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer lol

[AGIANTWHITEFRAT]

@AlienBeliever897 You sir, are the biggest geek I have ever seen on the web. "gives medal"

[AlienBeliever897]

@AGIANTWHITEFRAT I am truely honored :D

[MaestroFire]

@AlienBeliever897 That explains: "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"!!

[dragon71422]

@AlienBeliever897 The ALIENS ARE COMING!

[AlienBeliever897]

@dragon71422 Holy Shit, I better get to my bomb shelter! :D

[TheBadShaman]

@AlienBeliever897 Well, this picture was taken a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

[SmilingProtoss]

@AlienBeliever897 It just looks like a house to me.

[HelloZombie1]

@SmilingProtoss I learned about this in my photography class. It was taken from a bedroom window.

[Herodude892]

@AlienBeliever897 SO STAR WARS HAPPENED IN 1826!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[toxie95]

@AlienBeliever897 Wow, that's exactly what I was just thinking!

[Anglynn74]

everytime I see this it always looks like a painting or something drawn in charcoal but it's still fascinating nonetheless

[VivienForum]

really hard to explain the picture even if you say this was taken from a window i still can't see 100% if it is or not and can anyone tell me whats that thing on the left? looks liike a cage

[RafaelD1994]

HD!

[dancress]

fantastic. and also mysterious and creepy. i mean, i know that it's a view from a window over a roof and a chimney to the right, it could very well be a guy looking down at a table or something. first picture and waldo's already in it ;)

[kinbotest]

Thomas Wedgewood took earlier photographs, but was unable to fix them. They would fade away as you were looking at them. It was Niepce who was first able to fix a photograph. This "first photo" was made with bitumin coating on a pewter plate, and the fixative was oil of lavendar.

[toucansam3]

Most cell phone pics look like that, has technology really improved that much?

[normandyangel]

what is it?

[normandyangel]

what is the pic of?

[coptersoisoi]

is it me, or the center but upper left it looks like 2 people looking down at a map. 8 hours of time exposure? scarey that we're only like 15 years away from that being 200 years old.  Possibly even some of our forefathers still lived that year.

[100irissa]

great quality, lol

[ExesAndOwes]

They are dead now. Hmmm, not only that, but they are REALLY dead. Like decomposed and forgotten dead. Creepy. O_o

[garyhosty]

Its rubbish - my throaway takes much better pictures, the past was really rubbish wasn't it ? they must have been real dumb.

[unofficialdear]

@garyhosty oh yeah they were soo dumb, they invented the camera you dumb ass! if it wasn't for them, you wouldn't have your precious throwaway

[GilucZ]

@unofficialdear Sarcasm

[beatsanctuary]

@garyhosty

Your a retard!

[GilucZ]

@beatsanctuary Sarcasm

[justbeentowashington]

@garyhosty When you wake up tomorrow, start making a camera. Don't look at books or anything before hand either. I bet you would end up thinking they were actually pretty smart. Much smarter than you expect.

[Utzuki]

@garyhosty Back then things were very new to people. You take your throwaway camera for granted, but back then it was still very new technology. It doesnt mean they were dumb but that they just didnt know how to do things like that yet. I'd like you see you try and get a picture to look good at the time period this one was taken. It takes quite a lot of knowledge and skill to take pictures with older cameras.

[GilucZ]

@Utzuki Sarcasm

[deathknigt3000]

@garyhosty you are such a fucking retard. if it werent for these people, you wouldnt have your cameras to capture family moments and shit like that. try having some respect for history fucking dumbass.

[BethanM190]

@garyhosty Hahahaha! All I can do is laugh at that comment. It makes no sense. If it wasn't for all these people 'in the past' as you put it, you wouldn't have any of the things you have today. TVs, cameras, I could go on. You should respect previous generations for giving us the things we have today

[Kuti210]

@garyhosty LOL. I think people today are dumber... you for example!

[df61660a]

@garyhosty

wow - just wow... do a little research, fella

[xKoruunx]

@garyhosty Omg you are such a fucking retard

[clintonearlwalker]

Nicéphore Niépce's earliest surviving photograph of a scene from nature taken with a camera obscura,

View from the Window at Le Gras (1826) He began experimenting to set optical images in 1793. Some of his early experiments made images, but they faded very fast. The earliest known, surviving example of a Niépce photograph (or any other photograph) was created in 1825.[14] Niépce called his process heliography, which literally means "sun writing"--Wikipedia

[whopper1209]

Google pictures are worse then this XD

[MyDarknessFall]

on first time i thouth there are a man crying near of coffin (midle view)...and after a saw there a roof...yeah midle view a part of roof near of that roof a another house.

a think this photo was photographed trough the window

[C0LL1N]

wow 8 hours, its a good thing none of his slaves knocked the camera over

[BerkeleyBuilt]

what ISO were they using?

[Jadama0]

Also I forgot to add that this is a picture of a watercolor painting that is meant to resemble the photo in question.

[Jadama0]

I see two men leaning over a table or board of some kind.

[DragonStomp365]

Cool

[crazynintendoguy]

lol wth is it supposed to be? To me it looks like a darth vader ship XD

[CoreysOldLady]

looks like a spaceship in the middle if you look reeeeal close lol

[Ghoopty]

This is fucking creepy as shit (for some reason).

[christhetromboneguy]

@Ghoopty i know, just take a couple seconds to think and it'll just wierd ya out wont it?

[ProductionsHead]

it could of been possible that there was a human in that photograph, its quite obvious 8 hours was drasticly long in that case.

but in 1826?! I'd wait a few days!...

[Hippoclite]

The world's earliest motion picture : Roundhay Garden Scene 1888 (Louis Le Prince)

The first photo : View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 (Nicéphore Niépce)

The first sound ever recorded : Au clair de la lune 1860 (Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville)

All of these inventors were FRENCH.

THANK YOU FRENCH PEOPLE ! YOU MAKE PROGRESS HUMANITY !

[nimpo46]

hold on... i think that's my great great grandfather!!!

[123coxy123]

i need to upscale this and transfer it onto blueray so i can see its full detail

[Sevilou]

fuck all ignorant douches going like "wow hd" "thats shit" "man its blueray!" seriosly fuck you guys, this is where it all began without a start you wouldnt have your HD cameras and all that stuff, respect that, but i guess im just trying to explain it to 12 or 15 year olds

[TheBadbloke]

i still got a fake version of my grand grand parents on a wedding the original is gone

i dont know when the picture is taken it looks pretty old to me.

my grandma told me its taken in the year 1899

[TheBadbloke]

i still got a fake version of my grand grand parents on a wedding the original is gone (for some reasons).

i dont know when the picture is taken it looks pretty old to me.

my grandma told me its taken in the year 1899

[iluvlasagna22]

What is it??

[sengelle]

Lol what does 8 hours exposure mean? Does it mean like the camera was left there for 8 hours to process the whole picture or something?

[Videogamehistorian00]

@sengelle

Well in photography the exposure is the amount of time that the shutter is open and the film/sensor is exposed to light. So basically the camera sat there with it's shutter open for eight hours

[sengelle]

@Videogamehistorian00 Oh wow. Can't believe how far photography has gone since then. Nowadays, it's just a flash that captures it all so quickly.

[WAHT97]

star destroyer

[WAHT97]

star destroyers -_-

[DanceroidCPTV]

*after taken* This is so going on youtube

[BillDFC]

Looks like a Cezanne.