HIstory of Photography

By ybrownlee

  • 16th Century Photojournalism

    Beginning of photography, improving the camera obsura using a simple lens.

  • Finding out what light is

    Issac Newton found out that light is the source of color, Used a prism to split light into different colors. Basically based light thorugh a clear pyramid and created the rainbow effect.

  • Learing about Chemical photography

    Johann Schulze Discovered the light sensity of disolving silver in nitric acid.

  • Bettering the Camera Obsura

    Dolland developed the Archomatic telescope lens, which later helped to improve the camera obsurca image.

  • What Eyes Have To do with Cameras

    Thomas Young discovered that the retina processes three colors; Red, blue, green. And that the brain process just those three colors into everything else that is visible in the world

  • First Permanent Images

    J. Nicephore Niepce Produced a permant image, which is also know as a heliograph, using the camera Obscura, Took eight hours to dispose.

  • Negative

    Fox Talbot started making negatives

  • Mousetrap

    Fox Talbot used a mousetrap camera to make the first negative.

  • First book

    Fox Talbot published the first book on photography "Pencil of Nature"

  • Colors

    Louis Ducos du Hauron publish a book about colors and photography

  • film

    Hannibal Goodwin pattented film rolls

  • Kodak

    George Eastman first simple consumer camera made by kodk, because mass producing

  • Trasparent films

    George Eastman first transparent roll of films

  • Color film

    Augusta and Louis Lumiere First color film about to be patented

  • More color film

    Start of color film being processed and developed

  • Polaroids

    Dr. Edwin Land first polariod camera, called polaroid land

  • Instant pictures

    Dr. Edwin Land aslo created frist instant color pictures

  • Canon

    First digital camera still, canon

  • Milnolta

    The minolta 7000 auto focused 35mm SLR camera is introduced,

  • Photo Shop

    Photo shop is introduced to Apple computers

  • Advancing the Photo System

    A cassete that holds 24mm of film

  • First consumer digital camera

    The first consumer megapixel camera is introduced. They came in different types like those for adults and those for kid.

  • Canon

    Introduces EOS D30, first SLR camera with the CMOS sensor

  • Sharp and J-Phone

    The start of camera phones, which were used in the London Bombing

  • Contax

    Released the NDigital the first SLR camera which is around the same size as the 35mm.