Since I was little, I have been around cameras, sets and lights. As a cinematographer, my father was always working on a camera or using one to film something. I have always found his work interesting and exciting, which led me to choose cinematography for this article. I also like being able to be creative and come up with new ideas or different solutions, and cinema would allow me to do that on a daily basis. Researching this career opened my eyes to the history, current technology, and future innovations of cinema.1. History Cinema is a relatively new profession, with photography invented in the 19th century and large film studios appearing in the early 1900s. A Frenchman named Louis Daguerre is credited with the first uses of photography , from the 1830s. Daguerre's method took between five and forty minutes to develop a permanent image. In the 1840s, Josef M. Petzval, a Hungarian, managed to reduce this time and produce a clearer image. George Eastman was able to develop a “light and inexpensive” camera (Digital History), Kodak, and paper film wound on rolls (Digital History). The first examples of moving images were exhibited by Briton Eadward Muybridge in 1878. Thomas Edison soon entered the rising film scene by developing the kinetoscope with WK Dickinson in 1889. This new contraption was a "peepshow device" (History digital) which used a light to show a moving film. Edison also acquired a patent for a moving film camera in 1893. A year later, Edison and Dickinson's kinetoscopes appeared in New York arcades. Shortly after, French brothers August and Louis Lumière invented the projector in 1895. This projector allowed film to...... middle of paper ......togr.html>."Scholarships. " Scholarships. Internet. April 23, 2014. “Summary.” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Internet. April 23, 2014. “Top 10 Film Schools.” Top 10 film schools. Internet. April 23, 2014. “UG Cinema Studies: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.” UG Cinema Studies: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Internet. April 23, 2014. "'Life Of Pi' A 'F—ing Piece Of Sh–' According To The Cinematographer." News from the Inquisitor. Internet. April 23. 2014. .