Timeline of photography technology

Timeline of photography Technology

1825 - Nicéphore Niépce takes the first permanent photograph, an image of a boy leading a horse.

1835 - William Fox Talbot produces early permanent photographs through his own calotype process.

1839 - Louis Daguerre patents the daguerreotype.

1840 - William Fox Talbot invented the positive / negative process of photography used in all modern photography. He refers to this as calotype.

1851 - Introduction of the collodion process by Frederick Scott Archer

1871 - The Photographic film is invented by Richard Maddox

1872 - Louis Ducos du Hauron creates the first Color photography.[http://www.worldisround.com/articles/2378/photo2.html]

1876 - F. Hurter & V. C. Driffield begin systematic evaluation of sensitivity characteristics of film - science of sensitometry

1878 - Eadweard Muybridge made high-speed time lapse photographic demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system.

1887 - Celluloid film introduced.

1888 - Kodak n°1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.

1891 - Thomas Edison patents the kinetoscope (motion pictures)

1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere - Invented the cinématographe

1898 - Kodak introduced their folding camera Pocket Kodak

1900 - Kodak introduced their first Brownie (camera).

1901 - Kodak introduced the 120 film.

1902 - Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can be transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.

1907 - The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.

1912 - Vest Pocket Kodak using 127 film.

1913 - Kinemacolor, the first commercial natural color system for movies is invented.

1914 - Kodak introduced the Autographic system.

1923 - Doc Harold Edgerton invents the xenon flash lamp and strobe photography

1925 - The Leica introduced the 35mm film format to still photography.

1934 - The 135 film cartridge was introduced, making 35mm easy to use.

1936 - Development of Kodachrome multi-layered color film.

1948 - The Hasselblad camera was introduced.

1948 - Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid Corporation instant camera.

1957 - First Asahi Pentax Single-lens reflex camera introduced.

1959 - Nikon F introduced.

1959 - Agfa-Gevaert introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima .

1963 - Kodak introduces the Instamatic

1965 - First Pentax Spotmatic Single-lens reflex camera introduced.

1973 - Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming Charge-coupled device chip; 100 rows and 100 columns.

=See also=

List of inventions

List of inventions named after people

=External links=

[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_497301.html News story on Ananonva about auction of earliest photograph]

[http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Article.goid=3161&category_id=2 More about the earliest photograph]

[http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/VQ_P1_1_EN.html In the eye of the camera] — Illustrated historical essay about early photography