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500 BCE
5TH CENTURY B.C.
The Chinese were among the first to discover the idea of the pinhole camera. -
401 BCE
4TH CENTURY B.C.
Greek philosopher Aristotle discussed pinhole image formation in his work. -
1021
1021 A.D.
The invention of the camera obscura is credited to and mentioned by the Iraqi scientist Alhazen in his optics book. -
1664-1672
In refracting white light from a prism, Sir Isaac Newton discovers that white light is made of various colors. -
1685
Johann Zahn imagined the idea of a compact and tiny camera box shape, But it would be almost 150 years before technology could bring his vision to life. -
1717
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that upon exposure to light, silver nitrate darkened. -
1816
A wooden camera fitted with a microscope lens was built by Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce. -
1826
Heliograph invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, which he used to create the earliest permanent photograph known from nature, View from the Window at Le Gra. -
1837
Louis Daguerre invented the first practical photographic technique, which was commonly used in portraiture until the mid 1850s, in collaboration with Joseph Nicephore Niepce. -
1837
Gaspard Felix Tournachon, of Place De L'Etolie, Paris, took the first aerial photo. It was filmed in a tethered balloon from an altitude of 520 meters. -
1861
The first color photograph was developed by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1861. -
1871
As the plate material for the light-sensitive solution, Dr. Richard Maddox found a way of using gelatin instead of glass. -
1884-1924
At the Leitz factory in Germany, the camera went into production. From the "Leitz Camera" initials, it was called the Leica. -
1884-1888
Celluloid-based film and the compact lightweight, easy-to-use box camera were invented by George Eastman. -
1926
With this shot of a hogfish, pictured off the Florida Keys in the Gulf of Mexico by Dr. William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin, underwater color photography was born. -
1929
With the Rolliecord and then rollieflex developed by Franke & Heidecke in Germany, the big move forward for the mass marketing of the TLR (twin-lens reflex) came. -
1936
A left-handed shutter release and fast film wind thumb lever, folding waist level finder and 12 to 1/1000th second focal plane shutter were the first 35 mm SLR, the Ihagee Kine Exakta. -
1948
There is an entirely new form of camera, the Polaroid Model 95. It was the first practical instant-picture camera in the world. A proprietary chemical process was used by the Model 95 to create finished positive prints in less than a minute from the exposed negatives. -
1949
Historic camera: the Contax S, the first eye-level viewing pentaprism SLR. -
1952
Asahi's first iteration was the first Japanese-built 35 mm SLR, the AsahiflexI. -
1959
The nikon f is the first Japanese interchangeable system camera that constitutes the heart of a system. -
Photographer
Job Duties: Market or advertise services to attract clients.
Analyze and plan the composition of photographs.
Use various photographic techniques and lighting equipment. Responsibilities:Communicating with clients to set up a time and place for a photoshoot.
Editing photos. Tools/techniques used by employees: Tripod, Memory card wallets, cleaning kits, filters.Some techniques used are Short time lapse photography. ...
Light track imaging. ...
Light emission techniques. ...