Camera

By Akhil_borra

  • Silver Nitrate

    Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened when it is exposed to light
  • Camera Obscura

    Camera Obscura

    Joseph Niepce takes the first photpraph using camera obscura-The image required eight hours of light exposure and light faded
  • Daguerreotype photograph

    Daguerreotype photograph

    Louis Daguerre takes the first Daguerreotype photograph. The first image was fixed, did not fade, and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure
  • First Patent

    First Patent

    First American Patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolocott for his camera.
  • Calotype Process

    Calotype Process

    William Henry Tablot patents the calotype process, which is the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies

  • Collodion Process

    Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
  • Panoramic camera

    Panoramic camera

    Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
  • Mass-Market

    Mass-Market

    First mass-marketed camera-The Brownie
  • Flash

    Flash

    GE invests the modern flast bulb

  • SLR

    Mass production of the Modern SLR cameras by Nikon and Cannon
  • Instant Color Film

    Instant Color Film

    Polariod invents instant color film
  • Point-and-shoot

    Point-and-shoot

    Konica invents the first point-and-shoot camera