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History of Photography

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  • Camera Obscura

    Camera Obscura
    Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

  • Daguerreotype

    Daguerreotype
    Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

  • First Patent

    First Patent
    First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

  • Calotype Process

    Calotype Process
    William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

  • First advertisement wit photograph

    First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.

  • Collodion Process

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

  • Sutton

    Sutton
    Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.

  • Stereoscope Viewer

    Stereoscope Viewer
    Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.

  • Copyright

    Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.

  • Gelatin Dry Plate Silver Bromide Process

    Gelatin Dry Plate Silver Bromide Process
    Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

  • Eastman Dry Plate Company

    Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.

  • George Eastman, Film

    George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

  • celluloid photographic film.

    Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

  • 35mm still camera

    First 35mm still camera developed.

  • Kodak roll-film camera

    Kodak roll-film camera
    Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.

  • Modern flash bulb

    General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.

  • First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.

  • Kodachrome

    Kodachrome
    Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.

  • Kadacolor negative film

    Kadacolor negative film
    Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.

  • Electric Photography Patent

    Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).

  • Polaroid

    Polaroid
    Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.

  • Underwater Camera

    Underwater Camera
    EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

  • Instant color film

    Polaroid introduces instant color film.

  • Photo of Earth from Moon

  • SX-70 Camera

    SX-70 Camera
    Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.

  • First point-and-shoot autofocus camera

    Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.

  • Camcorder

    Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.

  • Digital Electronic Still Camera

    Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

  • Digital Imaging Processor, Pixar

    Digital Imaging Processor, Pixar
    Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.

  • First Megapixel sensor

    Kodak scientists invent the world's first megapixel sensor

  • Photo CD

    Photo CD
    Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.

  • Camera Phone

    First Camera Phone is sold in Japan
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    Smartphone Cameras

    Smartphone cameras revolutionize picture taking

  • Instagram

    Photo sharing social network app Instagam is created

  • Google Glass

    Google Glass
    Camera technology is taken to the next level with Google's interactive accessory

  • Cameras without Lenses

    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.