History of Photography

  • white light is composed of

    white light is composed of
    Issac Newton discovered that white light is made up of many different colours by using a prism and refection
  • Vision of a portable camera

    Vision of a portable camera
    Johann Zahn had a vision of a portable camera even though it would take about 150 years before technology was able to even think about bringing his vision to life.
  • discovery with silver nitrate

    discovery with silver nitrate
    Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light
  • constructed a wooden camera to fit a microscope lens

    constructed a wooden camera to fit a microscope lens
    He photographed images in the camera but they were negatives which meant they were darkest where the image was the lightest and wherever it was lightest it was darkest. Joseph could not prevent the coating fro darken over the whole thing.
  • Invented heliograph

    Invented heliograph
    Used bitumen as a coating on glass or metal which would harden. when the plate was washed with lavender oil. The part of the image area only hardened.
  • photogenic process

     photogenic process
    Joseph and Louis collaborated to invent the first photogenic process the picture is the first self portrait by Dutch Migrant Robert Cornelius
  • first photograph with colour

    first photograph with colour
    James clerk maxwell created the first coloured photograph which was a tartan ribbon by photographing it three times through red, blue , and yellow filters
  • Gelatin method instead of glass plate material

    Gelatin method instead of glass plate material
    This led to an invention of dry plate photography a process that did not require a dark room tent for immediate plate development
  • motion photography

    motion photography
    Eadweard Muybridge found a technique about using sequences of photos to look as if the pictures are in motion
  • mass marketing

    mass marketing
    This was a major step forward to mass marketing of the twins lens reflex. This was developed by Franke and heidecke in germany
  • Ihagee kine exakta

     Ihagee kine exakta
    first 35 mm Ihagee kine exakta had left hand shutter release and rapid film wind. consists of 12 to 1/1000th second focal plane shutter
  • polaroid model 95

    polaroid model 95
    world's first viable instant picture camera. This used a patented chemical process to produce positive prints from exposed negatives in just under one minute
  • The nikon F

    The nikon F
    first japanese system camera with interchangeable components
  • Digital camera

    Digital camera
    the first ever digital camera was invented by steven sasson. 8 pound camera recorded 0.01 megapixel black and white photos to a cassette tape. The first photograph took 23 seconds to create.
  • Apples take on photography

    Apples take on photography
    Take photos coloured on a single sensor. designed by Kodak and manufactured in japan. First take on photography by apple.
  • phone photography

    phone photography
    something that's very handy to use everyday since it was invented is phone photography which was represented by kyocera vp-210.
  • wearable card camera

    wearable card camera
    The Casio Exilim EX-S1/EX-M1 leapt forward in the ultracompact design race with the 0.4-inch-thick EX-S1 “wearable card camera.”
  • The cannon

    The cannon
    The Canon EOS 5D had the popular new market category all to itself until 2008, when Nikon and Sony released their D700 and Alpha 900.
  • The go pro

    The go pro
    The Go Pro Digital Hero 3 where you are able to go anywhere with these . Now most people who do sports, ride bicycles, even drive cars have these and use them to take videos and photographs high quality
  • first apple phone

    first apple phone
    First ever apple phone introduced but this wasn't the very first phone to have installed a camera into it
  • The Nikon D800

    The Nikon D800
    The Nikon D800 comes to the market with an unprecedented 36 million pixel full frame sensor
  • I phone 7

    I phone 7
    The iphone 7 introduces its latest in camera technology- a camera has a six-element lens and a 12-megapixel sensor.
  • Iphone x

    Iphone x
    Introduces the I phone x