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Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of difference colors.
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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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The first photograph was made by Joseph Nicephore Niepce.
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The first photographic method called daguerreotype was inveted by Louis Jacques Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce.
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First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
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William Fox Tallbot Perfected a different process process called the calotype.
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The theory of 3 color photography published by Maxwell.
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Maxwell demonstrates first color photo.
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Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatine dry plate.
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George Eastman started manufacturing paper film.
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George Eastman's first camera, Kodak, was offered for sale
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George Eastman switched to Celluloid.
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F.E. Ives patents 1st commercial color process.
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George Eastman took mass-market photography one step further with the Brownie, a simoke and very inexpensive box camera that introduced the conceot of the snapshot.
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London offers 1st color portrait.
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The George Eastman Company produces the first autographic roll-film camera. Autographic film has two layers, the front layer for recording the image and the back layer for writing information about the photo. Photographers write on the back of the film by opening a small door in the back of the camera. This is the first form of photographic data collecting.
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Mannes and Godowsky patented the 3 layer color process.
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The Japanese camera industry began to take off with Conon 35mm rangefinder.
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Agfa and Kodak introduced color paper.
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Eye-level viewfinder first appeared on the Hungarian Duflex in 1947
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The eye-level viewfinder was refined in 1948 with the Contax S.
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Date when Polaroid introduces its revolutionary instant color film.
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Polaroid introduces first instant color film.
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The First Photograph of planet Earth taken from the moon!
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Canon made a 35mm camera with built in microprocessor.
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The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera was by Steven Sason, an engineer at Eastman Kodak
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Sony Introduced the first camcorder for domestic use.
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Handheld electronic cameras appeared in 1981.
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Analog electric cameras appear on the market.
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The capability to transmit images without a satellite link. This was usefulk during the Tiananmen Square protests.
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The first commercially available camera.
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Kodak brought to market the Kodak DCS-100.
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The first digital camera for consumer use is the Apple QuickTake 100. This camera can be connected to a computer using a serial cable.
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Although the technology is already being used for government purposes, Sony introduces the Mavica, the first commercially available electronic still camera. This camera does not use film. Instead, it records images onto a minidisk, which can then be connected to a computer for viewing. While this camera is not digital, its technology is the precursor to the digital revolution.
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The first megapixel cameras for consumers were marketed.
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The introduction of Nikon DI.
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Digital cameras continue to increase in quality and capacity as technology advances. A range of professional digital SLRs, like the 50-megapixel Hasselblad H3D11- 50, point-and-shoot digital cameras, like the Sony DSCW300 Cyber-shot, and models in between, like the Nikon D-40, are being produced.