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timeline of photography

By joefish365

  • 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

    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

  • crimean war end

  • 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.

  • Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.

  • First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie

  • First 35mm still camera developed.

  • ww1 starts

  • ww1 ends

  • First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.

  • ww2 starts

  • Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.

  • Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.

  • Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.

  • ww2 ends

  • Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.

  • Polaroid introduces instant color film.

  • 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.

  • Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.

  • Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.