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Timeline of photography technology
Timeline
of
photography
technology
1826
-
Nicéphore Nièpce
takes the first permanent
photograph
1835
-
William Fox Talbot
produces early permanent photographs through his own process.
1839
- Jacques 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
photogenic drawing
.
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 "kinetoscopic camera" (motion pictures)
1895
-
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
- Invented the cinématographe
1898
- Kodak introduced their
Folding
Pocket Kodak
1900
- Kodak introduced their first
Brownie
.
1901
- Kodak introduced the
120 film
.
1902
- Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can 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.
1925
- The
Leica
introduced the
35mm
format to still photography.
1934
- The
135 film
cartridge was introduced, making 35mm easy to use.
1936
- Development of
Kodachrome
multy-layered color film.
1948
- The
Hasselblad
camera was introduced.
1948
-
Edwin H. Land
introduces the first
Polaroid
instant image camera
.
1957
- First Asahi Pentax
SLR
introduced.
1959
-
Nikon F
introduced.
1959
-
Agfa
introduces the first fully automatic camera, the
Optima
.
1963
-
Kodak
introduces the
Instamatic
1965
- First Pentax Spotmatic
SLR
introduced.
1973
-
Fairchild Semiconductor
releases the first large image forming
CCD
chip
; 100 rows and 100 columns.