Selfie – the self-portrait which is carried out by the camera. Surprisingly, but attempts to make a photo of itself began long before a great computerization and emergence of mobile devices with the built-in camera. About the one who thought up a selfie, it will be told in this article.
First selfies
Own self-portraits began to do when the portable Kodak Brownie camera in 1900 appeared. From photos available today it is possible to note the picture of the American photographer Robert Cornelius to which slightly less than two hundred years and the picture of the great princess Anastasia Nikolaevna executed in 1914. And in that and other case the mirror and also the support providing immovability of the camera was used. The boom of a selfie began approximately in 2010 though they were actively removed also at the beginning of the 2000th years, but then the quality of pictures left much to be desired.
Who thought up a selfie a stick?
In it there was a requirement if it is possible to be expressed so. The fact is that side or front-facing cameras not always conform to requirements, and in some devices they are absent at all. Besides there is not always enough distance of an outstretched arm for implementation of the picture, here and began to use a special stick. Those who is interested, who invented a selfie a stick, can answer that it was made by two Japanese designers 30 years ago. The telescopic extender allowed to support compact cameras, but even 10 years later it did not become widespread and was even considered as a useless invention.
Today the stick for a selfie received the second life, but there are also many serious arguments against selfies. In particular, in medicine register more and more accidents in attempt to take the original picture. A ban on sticks is imposed at football matches, the tennis championships and some museums.