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Ancient Times
Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via pinhole. -
16th Century
Brightness and clairty of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole and inserting a telescope lens. -
1727
Professor J.Schulze uses different substances and notices it darkens the side of flask exposed to sunlight. Accidentaly creating the first photo-sensitive compund. -
1800
Thomas Wedgwood makes 'sun pictures' showed better under light then candles. -
1816
Nicephore Niepce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper. -
1826
Niepce makes/creates a permanent photo. -
1834
Henery Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images. Creates positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper. -
1837
Louis Daguerre is awarded a state pension by the French government in exchange for the publication of methods and the rights by other French citizens to use the Daguerreotype. -
1851
Frederick Scott Archer, improves photographic resolution by spreading a mixture of collodion and chemicals on sheets of glass. -
1854
Adolphe Disderi develops carte-de-visite photogrpahy in Paris, leading to a worldwide 'BOOM' in portrait studios for the next decade. -
1855
Beginning of stereostopic era. -
1855-1857
Direct positive images on glass/metal. -
1861
Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates colour photography system involving 3 black and white photogrpahs, each taken through red, green, or blue filters. 'The colour seperation method.' -
1868
Ducas de Hauron publishes a book proposing a variety of methods for colour photography. -
1871
Richard Leach Maddox, proposed the use of an emulsion of gelatin and silver bromide on a glass plate, the 'dry plate' method. -
1878
Dry plates being manufactured commercially. -
1880
First half-tone photograph appears in a daily newspaper called 'New York Graphic.' -
1889
Improved Kodak camera with roll of film instead of paper. -
1900
Kodak Brownie box-roll-film camera introduced. -
1906
Availability of panchcromatic black and white film therefore high quality. -
1907
First commercial colour film. -
1921
Man Ray begins to make photgrams (Rayographs). -
1931
Development of strobe photography. (Harold) -
1936
Development of kodachromatic- multi-layered colour film. -
1948
Offers it's first medium-format SLR for commercial sale. -
1973
C-41 colour negative process. -
1980-1983
Individuals found a way to make image sized larger on cameras. -
1885
First auto-focus SLR 'Maxxum'. -
1987
Cannon EOS system introduced. -
1990
Adobe Photoshop introduced. -
2001
Poloroid goes bankrupt. -
2004
Kodak ceases production of film cameras.
