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Jan 1, 1400
First Element Of a Working Camera - Camera Obscura
In the 1400's, an inverted image could be projected onto a dark, flat surface. It was documented that putting the lense in the hole would produce a nicer image. This technology, called "Camera Obscura" , was used to sketch more quickly and ease the depth perception. You could project the image onto a peice of paper in a dark area and the artist would trace outlines of the projected image. -
May 29, 1400
Second Know Element
DATE ABOVE IS NOT DEFINATE( between 1400 - 1800) : The second know element of a working camera was the existance of materials capable of permanent change when exposed to any light. -
Jan 1, 1568
Daniello Barbaro
Daniello Barbaro fitted the camera obscura with a lens and a changeable opening to sharpen the image that was projected. -
Daguerrotype Image
DAY & MONTH ARE NOT EXACT: Early in the 1800's the knowledge of both elements of working cameras were combined. Now called a Daguerrotype image made a huge impact on the world when it was announced in 1839. There were still a few problems to work out though. -
Latent Images
EXACT DATE IS NOT DEFINATE: A new discovery was being made that latent images in reverse color were a lot less time consuming. Paper negatives were washed , chemically treated and used to make positive prints.
This was a VERY new and efficient way to produce images. -
Thomas Wegwood and Sir Humphry Davy
DAY AND MONTH ARE NOT EXACT: These two men recorded by contact printing, on paper coated with silver nitrate or silver chloride, silhouettes and images of paintings made upon glass. They were unable to make these prints permanent. -
Permanent Images
Sir John Herschel used sodium thiosulfate, or hypo, to make pictures permanent. -
George Eastman
MONTH & DAY NOT EXACT: In the late 1800s, a man named George Eastman invented the idea of converting the preprocessed plate into rolls of sheets that were mounted on a roll holder inside of the camera. Continuous pictures could be taken and when the role was full it was brought back for processing! -
Colour Ribbon
"James Clerk Maxwell reproduced a coloured ribbon by the three color additive process." -
Dry Processing - no more chemicals on site
DAY & MONTH NOT DEFINATE: By this time, the wet developing process gave way to a new innovation called the gelatin dry plate. Chemicals were not needed anymore on site. Treated plates could be taken out to the field, exposed, and brought back to a dark room for later processing -
MOTION
DATE AND MONTH NOT EXACT: "Eadweard Muybridge first made serial photographs of moving animals and people Later, he projected them, showing motion." -
FIRST motion picture
DAY & MONTH NOT EXACT: Thomas Edison made the FIRST motion picture avalible on a 35 mm roll film made by the Eastman company. -
FLASH
DAY & MONTH NOT EXACT: Electric flash was invented! -
Polaroid Camera
MONTH & DAY NOT EXACT: Edwin H. Land was first to introduce the polaroid camera. It was able to process black and white photographs within a minute! -
Polaroid COLOUR camera
MONTH AND DAY NOT EXACT: Edwin H. Land introduced the COOUR polaroid cameras. The development of these photos only took 50 seconds! -
Polaroid
EXACT DAY & MONTH NOT EXACT: Elsa Dorfman starts to make pictures with the 20x24" Polaroid. -
Disk Camera
DAY AND MONTH NOT EXACT: Kodak introduced the disk camera. -
Canon EOS
EXACT DAY AND MONTH NOT DEFINITE: The Canon EOS camera introduced ! -
First SLR
DAY AND MONTH NOT EXACT: Kodak first SLR camera. -
Camera Phone
First camera phone invented by Sharp/J-Phone in Japan
