Photography throughout Time

Oldest Surviving Photograph

Apr 9, 1826

Nicéphore Niépce has achieved a historic event of having the earliest surviving photo from nature.

Additive colour

Apr 9, 1861

James Clerk Maxwell was the first to present additive colour (multi coloured ribon) He was the first to demostrate colour photography.

High speed photography

Apr 16, 1878

Eadweard Muybridge was the first to use trip-wires to make a high-speed photographic analysis of a galloping horse.

Kinetoscopic

Apr 16, 1891

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson developed kinetoscopic which is a motion picture, he did this whilst working for Thomas Edison

Telephotography

Apr 9, 1902

Arthur Korn invented practical telephotography technology which is the reduction of a photographic image to signals.

22mm Home motion Picture

Apr 9, 1912

Thomas Edison introduced the first 22mm home motion picture which film wise was manufactured by Kodak

Leica 35mm

Apr 9, 1925

Leica in 1925 invented the first 35mm format to still photography

Automatic Camera

Apr 9, 1959

In 1959 AGAF invented the first fully functional and automatic camera. This camera was called the optima

Megapixel Sensor

Apr 9, 1986

Scientists who worked for Kodak in 1986 invented the world's first megapixel sensor.

Pocket Size

Apr 9, 2011

Lytro in 2011 released the worlds first pocket sized light field camera. This camera was capable of focusing photos after they had been taken.