Timeline of the Camera

By katherinea

  • Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors

    Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors

  • Nicéphore Niépce takes first permanent photograph

  • William Fox Talbot produces early permanent photos

  • John Herschel makes the first glass negative

  • Talbot invents positive/negative process

  • Louis Daguerre patents the daguerreotype

  • Disdéri introduces a rotating camera

  • Disdéri introduces a rotating camera

  • First color photograph shown by James Maxwell

    First color photograph shown by James Maxwell

    The first color photograph, taken by James Maxwell, was an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon.
  • Hauron patents subtractive color photography

    Hauron patents subtractive color photography

    Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron was a French pioneer of color photography. He discovered practical ways of taking coloor images using both additive (red, green, blue) and subtractive (cyan, magenta, yellow) methods. He patended some of his methods in 1868.

  • The study of light sensitive material begins

  • Muybridge makes high-speed photo demonstration

    Muybridge makes high-speed photo demonstration

    Muybridge's photography led to the discovery that a horse becomes completely airborne as it runs. He did this through action photography. His contributions were both vital to the photography world, as well as the sciences, because his photography better allowed scientists to study the human body.
  • Kodak n。1 box camera is mass marketed

    Kodak n。1 box camera is mass marketed

  • Lumière brothers introduce cinématographe

  • Kodak introduced their Folding Pocket Kodak

    Kodak introduced their Folding Pocket Kodak

  • Kodak introduced their first Brownie

    Kodak introduced their first Brownie

  • Kodak introduced the 120 film

  • Arthur Korn enables sending photos through wire

  • The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process

    It remained the principal color photography process until it was superseded by the invention of color film during the mid 1930s.

  • Kinemacolor gives natural color to movies

  • Disney makes first full-color Technicolor movie

  • Kodacolor, Kodak's first "print" film

  • Dennis Gabor invents holography

  • Land introduces 1st Polaroid instant image camera

  • First Asahi Pentax SLR introduced

  • AGFA introduces the first fully automatic camera

  • Fairchild Semiconductor starts digital imaging

  • Steven Sasson invents the digital camera

    Steven Sasson invents the digital camera

  • Sony introduces first commercial electronic camera

  • Kodak invent world's 1st megapixel sensor

  • First digital cameras for consumer-level markets

  • First camera phones are invented

  • Dalsa produces 111 megapixel CCD sensor

  • Polaroid discontinues production of instant film

    Polaroid discontniued the production of all instant film products, due to the rise of digital imaging technology.

  • Kodak files a bankruptsy report