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Niépce creates the first permanent image, it was a view from a window at Le Gras. The first time an image had been permanently created.
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James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates a colour photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter.
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George Eastman invented roll film, the invention was used for motion picture film, it was also used by early film makers and Thomas Edison.
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First underwater colour photo was invented by Charles Martin & W.H. Longley. They equipped the cameras encased in waterproof housing and pounds of highly explosive magnesium flash powder for underwater illumination.
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The first photo in space was taken from an altitude of 65 miles above the surface of New Mexico. It was captured by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera as that camera was propelled skyward on a German V-2 missile.
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It used the then-new solid-state CCD image sensor chips developed by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1973. The camera weighed 3.6 kg, recorded black and white images to a compact cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixels, and took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December 1975.
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Kodak introduces disk camera, using an 8x11mm frame. The same as in the Minox spy camera. The film was in the form of a flat disc, and was fully housed within a plastic cartridge. Each disc held fifteen 10 × 8 mm exposures, arranged around the outside of the disc, with the disc being rotated 24° between each image.
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Photomosaics is a large-scale detailed picture or map built up by combining photographs of small areas.
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The J-SH04 was a mobile phone made by Sharp Corporation, It was Japan's first ever phone with a built-in camera
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Pentax introduce the K-1 FF/35mm 36Mpx camera with GPS, Wi-Fi, 5 Axis 5 stops in body stabilisation, astro-tracer, pixel shift HD images, and other advanced features.
