Thomas Sutton (photographer)
Thomas Sutton | |
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| Born | c. 1819 |
| Died | 19 March 1875 (aged 55–56) |
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Thomas Sutton (c. 1819 – 19 March 1875, in Kensington[1][2]) was an English photographer, author, and inventor.
Life
Thomas Sutton went to school in
Prince Albert.[4] In 1855 he set up a photographic company in Jersey with business partner Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard that produced prints from calotype negatives.[citation needed
] The following year, Sutton and Blanquart-Evrard founded the journal Photographic Notes, which Sutton edited for eleven years. A prolific author, Sutton wrote a number of books on the subject of photography, including the Dictionary of Photography in 1858.
In 1859, Sutton developed the earliest panoramic camera with a wide-angle lens. The lens consisted of a glass sphere filled with water, which projected an image onto a curved plate. The camera was capable of capturing an image in a 120 degree arc.[4]
In 1861, Sutton invented and patented the first true
single lens reflex camera.[5]
Sutton was the photographer for
colour vision
and underlies nearly all practical chemical and electronic colour imaging technologies. Sutton's ribbon image is sometimes called the first colour photograph. There were, in fact, earlier and possibly better colour photographs made by experimenters who used a completely different, more purely chemical process, but the colours rapidly faded when exposed to light for viewing. Sutton's photographs preserved the colour information in black-and-white silver images containing no actual colouring matter, so they are very light-fast and durable and the set may reasonably be described as the first permanent colour photograph.
Sutton also worked on the development of dry photographic plates.
References
- ^ "Thomas Sutton - Historic Camera History Librarium". historiccamera.com.
- ^ "Biography: Thomas Sutton". victorianresearch.org.
- ^ "Sutton, Thomas (STN842T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Thomas Sutton Panoramic Camera Lens
- ISBN 978-0-517-53381-9. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
