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Cameras and Film

By _aannn

  • First photographic image

    Joseph Niecpe achieves first photographic image with a camera obscura. The image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded

  • Louis Daguerre’s first Daguerreotype

    The first image that was fixed and did not fade and only needed 30 minutes of light exposure.
  • Louis Daguerre patents the Daguerreotype

    Louis Daguerre patents the Daguerreotype

  • André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri introduces a camera with multiple lens

    André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri introduces a camera with multiple lens

    Disdéri introduced a camera with multiple lenses, which could reproduce eight individually exposed images on a single negative.
  • James Clerk Maxwell produces first colour photograph

    James Clerk Maxwell produces first colour photograph

  • Richard Maddox invents gelatin emulsion

  • George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

  • Celluloid film base introduced

  • George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera

  • Kodak n°1 box camera

  • First Brownie is introduced by Kodak

    First Brownie is introduced by Kodak

  • 120 Film is introduced by Kodak

  • Leica introduces 35mm format to still photography

  • 135 film is introduced to make 35mm easy to use

  • Kodacolour film is introduced by Kodak

  • Hasselblad 1600F camera is introduced

    Hasselblad 1600F camera is introduced

  • Edwin Land introduced first instant image polariod camera

  • Contax S SLR camera is introduced

    Contax S SLR camera is introduced

    The first 35mm SLR with pentaprism for eye-level viewing

  • 3D film craze begins

  • Leica M is introduced

    Leica M is introduced

  • Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.

    Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.

  • Polaroid introduces first instant colour film

  • Kodak introduces the Instamatic

    Kodak introduces the Instamatic

  • Pentax Spotmatic SLR

    Pentax Spotmatic SLR

  • Konica introduces first point and shoot, autofocus camera

    Konica introduces first point and shoot, autofocus camera

  • Canon introduces first digital still-camera

  • Minolta markets world first AF SLR

    Minolta markets world first AF SLR

  • Fuji introduced the disposable

  • Canon EOS introduced

  • Nikon D1, 2.74 megapixel SLR is demonstrated

    Nikon D1, 2.74 megapixel SLR is demonstrated

  • Canon 5D is marketed

    Canon 5D is marketed