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Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
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Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
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First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
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William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.
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First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.
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Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
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Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
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Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.
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Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
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Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
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Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
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First 35mm still camera developed.
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Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
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General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
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Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
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Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
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Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).
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Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
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EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
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Polaroid introduces instant color film.
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Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
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Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
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Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
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Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
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Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.
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Kodak scientists invent the world's first megapixel sensor
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Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
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First Camera Phone is sold in Japan
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Smartphone cameras revolutionize picture taking
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Photo sharing social network app Instagam is created
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Camera technology is taken to the next level with Google's interactive accessory
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Cameras without Lenses consiting of two different parts: An aperture assembly and an image sensor. The aperture assembly is an LCD, which allows light to pass through at points of variable size and position.
