photography timeline

By k16516

  • Thomas Wedgwood uses light sensitive chemical to create silhouettes but they are not permanent.

  • Louis Daguerre creates daguerreotype process

    Creates highly detailed permanent images on silver plated sheets of copper

  • Kodak introduces folding pocket Kodak

  • Kodak produces first 'Brownie'

    An inexpensive user reloadable camera

  • Henry Fox Talbot introduces calotype process

    A negative process that uses paper covered with silver iodide

  • Edmond Becquerel creates first colour photographs

    However it is a slow process that takes days and they are very light sensitive.

  • Kodak n1 box camera, the first easy to use camera is introduced