The History of Photography

  • Earliest Surviving Photograph

    Earliest Surviving Photograph

    This is the Earliest surviving photograph taken by Nicephore Niepce in 1826 or 1827.
  • Alexander Walcott

    Alexander Walcott

    Alexander Wolcott invented the first ever camera back in 1840. Although there were other phoptographs taken before his invention, but using a differant method like using silver and chalk.
  • Mathew Brady

    Mathew Brady

    During the American Civil War, Mathew Brady and his staff were able to expose 7000 negatives.
  • Thi First Photo With Colour

    Thi First Photo With Colour

    This was the first photo that included full colour, it was taken by Thomas Sutton in 1861.
  • Dry Plate Cameras

    Dry Plate Cameras

    Dry Plate cameras began to be manufactured commercially for the public.
  • First Kodak Camera

    First Kodak Camera

    This was the first acmera invented by Kodak. it had 20 feet of paper for circular pictures.
  • Strobe Photography

    Strobe Photography

    in 1931, Harold 'Doc' Edgerton improved and developed Strobe Photography to freeze objects in motion so they could be captured on film.
  • World War 2 Photography

    World War 2 Photography

    During WWII development of Multi-Layer colour negative films began.
  • SLR Commercial Sale

    SLR Commercial Sale

    A Swedish company called 'Hasselblad', offers its first medium-format SLR for commercial sale in Japan.
  • The Instamatic 100

    The Instamatic 100

    This was the first instamatic camera made by Nikon in 1963 making it easier for families to take photos for a low cost.
  • First Underwater Camera

    First Underwater Camera

    The Nikonos was the first camera able to take pictures under water in 1963.
  • 110 Format Camera

    110 Format Camera

    110 Format Cameras were introduced by Kodak in 1972 with a 13X17mm frame.
  • Mavica Still Video

    Mavica Still Video

    Sony introduces the 'Mavica Still Video' camera in 1982.
  • Worlds First Auto-Focusing Camera

    Worlds First Auto-Focusing Camera

    The worlds first autofocus camera was made and marketed by Minolta.
  • Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Photoshop

    In 1990 Adobe Photoshop was released.
  • Camera Phone

    Camera Phone

    Camera Phone was developed in Japan by Sharp.