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Camera

By anna_peterson
  • Alhazen invents first pinhole camera
    Jan 1, 1000

    Alhazen invents first pinhole camera

    Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera
  • Joseph Nicephore Niepce makes first photographic image

    Joseph Nicephore Niepce makes first photographic image

    In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura.
  • Louis Daguerre creates process for 'fixed' images

    Louis Daguerre creates process for 'fixed' images

    In 1839 after several years of experimentation and Niepce's death, Louis Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself - the daguerreotype.
  • Henry Foxt Talbot creates calotype.

    Henry Foxt Talbot creates calotype.

    In 1841, Henry Fox Talbot perfected the paper-negative process and called it a calotype,
  • Hamilton Smith patents tintypes

    Hamilton Smith patents tintypes

    Tintypes patented in 1856 by Hamilton Smith, made a more positive image.
  • Dr. Richard L. Maddox invents the dry plate and hand-held camera

    Dr. Richard L. Maddox invents the dry plate and hand-held camera

    In 1879, the dry plate and hand-held camera were invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox.
  • George Eastman invents flexible roll film

    George Eastman invents flexible roll film

    In 1889, George Eastman invented flexible roll film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled.
  • Commercially viable color films come along.

    Commercially viable color films come along.

    In the early 1940s, commercially viable color films were brought to the market in order to create colored images.