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first daguerreotype
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. -
first camera made and patented
alexander wolcott makes first camera. Photographs were taken prior to that, but it wasn't really a camera that was used to make the photographs, but a large wooden box -
calotype process patented
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. -
advert using photograph
First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. -
Collodion process - invented
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure. -
crimean war strts
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crimean war end
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Panoramic camera patented
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton. -
stereoscope viewer invented
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. -
negatives protected
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright. -
gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - invented
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. -
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
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Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
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First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie
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First 35mm still camera developed.
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ww1 starts
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ww1 ends
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First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.
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ww2 starts
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Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
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Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
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Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
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ww2 ends
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Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
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Polaroid introduces instant color film.
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Photograph of the Earth from the moon.
The first view of Earth rising over the moon was taken not by an astronaut, but by NASA's unmanned Lunar Orbiter 1 -
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
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Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
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Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
