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Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via pinhole.
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Brightness and clairty of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole and inserting a telescope lens.
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Professor J.Schulze uses different substances and notices it darkens the side of flask exposed to sunlight. Accidentaly creating the first photo-sensitive compund.
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Thomas Wedgwood makes 'sun pictures' showed better under light then candles.
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Nicephore Niepce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper.
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Niepce makes/creates a permanent photo.
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Henery Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images. Creates positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.
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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.
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Frederick Scott Archer, improves photographic resolution by spreading a mixture of collodion and chemicals on sheets of glass.
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Adolphe Disderi develops carte-de-visite photogrpahy in Paris, leading to a worldwide 'BOOM' in portrait studios for the next decade.
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Beginning of stereostopic era.
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Direct positive images on glass/metal.
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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.'
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Ducas de Hauron publishes a book proposing a variety of methods for colour photography.
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Richard Leach Maddox, proposed the use of an emulsion of gelatin and silver bromide on a glass plate, the 'dry plate' method.
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Dry plates being manufactured commercially.
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First half-tone photograph appears in a daily newspaper called 'New York Graphic.'
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Improved Kodak camera with roll of film instead of paper.
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Kodak Brownie box-roll-film camera introduced.
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Availability of panchcromatic black and white film therefore high quality.
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First commercial colour film.
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Man Ray begins to make photgrams (Rayographs).
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Development of strobe photography. (Harold)
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Development of kodachromatic- multi-layered colour film.
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Offers it's first medium-format SLR for commercial sale.
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C-41 colour negative process.
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Individuals found a way to make image sized larger on cameras.
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First auto-focus SLR 'Maxxum'.
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Cannon EOS system introduced.
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Adobe Photoshop introduced.
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Poloroid goes bankrupt.
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Kodak ceases production of film cameras.
