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Shen Kuo and Plato (Chinese and Greek) philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
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Isaac Newton discovers that white light us composed of different colours. This discovery ranged through the time of 1664 to 1666
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Joseph Niepce achieves the first ever photographic image with the camera obsecura. The image required eight hours of light exposure and would fade later on.
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From 1839 on, the popular metal plate process known as daguerreotype opened up photography to the masses. Though it may have been one of the easier metal plate photographic processes, it was still messy, expensive, very time consuming, and somewhat dangerous.
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William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process-the first negative-positive process making the first multiple copies a possibility.
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The first advertisement with a photograph was made in Philadelphia.
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Fredrick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process-images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
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In addition to its scientific uses and all the art produced, photography also made its way into the news. Written journalistic descriptions and hand-drawn or painted illustrations were replaced by photographic images. These images were displayed in public shows and published in newspapers and magazines.
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Panoramic camera patented-the sutton
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Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. In 1888, Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
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First 35mm still camera was developed between 1913/1914
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General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
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Eastman Kodak introduces Kodakcolor negative film.
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Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
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EG and G develops an extreme depth underwater camera for the U.S Navy.
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Polaroid introduces instant color film. In 1973 Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the sx-70 camera.
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A photograph is taken of the Earth from the Moon.
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Sony demonstrates the first ever consumer camcorder.
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Canon demonstrates the first ever digital electronic still camera.
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Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
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Kodak created the first digital camera. It was the Nikon F-3 camera, which was mainly aimed ay photojournalists and was a 1.3 megapixel camera.
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As cameras were becoming smarter, smaller, lighter and more efficient, mobile phones were also advancing. The age of the cell phone was already underway as early as the 80s. They too were becoming smaller and smarter.
