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The first pinhole camera, also known as the Camera Obscura was invented by Alhazen.
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Isaac Newton discovers white light is composed of different colours.
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Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
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Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
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Niepce joined forces with a man named Jacques Louis Mande Dauguerre. Together, they had a single goal, perfecting the photograph.
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Dauguerre produced the first practical photographic process. It was named the daguerreotype, and it used mirror-like images on a copper plate, and it was developed with mercury.
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An Englishman named William Talbot, who had been working on photography for a few years, developed a new process using paper instead of copper plates. He developed the images using Gallic acid.
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First advertisement with a photograph is published in Philadelphia.
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Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process so that images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
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A German named Wilhelm Roentgen invented a type of photograph that would revolutionize the medical world. He named it the x-ray.
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Up until this point, photographs were in black and white. Auguste and Louis Lumiere introduced the Autochrome, the first colour camera available to the public.
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First 35mm still camera is developed. In 1913 this camera cost around $175. By todays standards that's the equal of a $3000 Leica.
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Using wires, AT&T sent a photograph across a distance. This opened the doors for the picture transmission of television.
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Over the next forty years the camera evolved at a fast pace. Photocopying became possible, the zoom lens was developed, the Polaroid was released, and the point-and-shoot camera was put out by Eastman Kodak.
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Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”.
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In 1992 Kodak introduced a revolutionary development that would change the face of photography again. Storing pictures on a CD led to digital film including digital cameras, digital picture frames, and cameras on phones and tablets.
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In Japan, Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.
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The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.
