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First Photograph
Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first photographic image. He used a pinhole camera to create the photo which required eight hours of light exposure to appear, and only lasted a short time. -
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History of Photography
Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first photographic image. He used a pinhole camera to create the photo which required eight hours of light exposure to appear, and only lasted a short time. -
Permanent Negative
Henry Talbot creates a permanent negative image using paper soaked in silver chloride and a salt solution, he then created the positive image using contact printing. The photo is of the first negative ever created. -
Daguerreotype
Louis Daguerre created the Daguerreotype, a quicker and more efficient way of developping photos and the photo was permanent.
More Information:
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Calotype
Henry Talbot patens his process and names it Calotype which is greek for beautiful impression -
Portrait Studio Opened in Paris
Nadar Felix Toumachon opens the first portrait studio in Paris -
Developpement of Carte-De-Viste Photography
Adolphe Disderi creates carte-de-visite photography in Paris -
Stereoscopic Era
3D photography that recreates the illusion of depth -
First Colour Photograph
Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell creates the first colour photograph by using the "Colour Seperation Method" which involved the use of red, green and blue filters
Worlds Oldest Colour Photos:
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Mathew Brady covers civil war with photographs
From 1861 to 1865 Mathew Brady covers the american civil war by taking over 7000 photographs -
Dry Plates being manufactured commercially
Dry Plate is photographic plate invented by Richard L. Maddox in 1871. -
First half-tone photograph appears in a newspaper
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First Kodak Camera
camera contains a 20 foot roll of paper and is able to produce 100 circular photographs -
Improved Kodak Camera
Camera has roll of film instead of paper -
Kodak Brownie Box
Kodak produced the Kdak Brownie Box which contained a roll of film inside -
First Commercial Colour Film- Autochrome
Autochrome commecial colour film created by Lumiere brothers in France -
Nikon became established
Nippon Kogaku K.K. established Nikon in Tokyo -
Rayographs
Man Ray begins making Rayographs -
Strobe Photography
Strobe Photography created by Harold Edgerton
Cool video about underwater strobe photography:
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Fuji Film Created
Fuji Film became established and began production by 1938 -
Developpememnt of Kodachrome
First Multi-Layered colour film -
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World War II
Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans, and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for LIFE magazine -
Polaroid Camera
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First Image Scanned to a Computer
Photograph was scanned by Russell Kirsch at U.S. National Bureau of Standards -
First Colour Instant film & Under Water Photography commercialy available
First Colour Instant film - Polaroid
Under Water Pjotography - Nikon -
First Working Digital Still Camera
First working digital still camera made by Kodak created by Steve Sasson -
Disk Camera
Kodak creates the disk camera -
First Auto-Focus SLR
Minolta creates first auto-focused SLR -
Adobe Photoshop Created
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Photo CD
Photo CD created by Kodak -
Camera Phone
Camera Phone invented in Japan -
111 megapixel CCD sensor
Dalsa makes a 111 megapixel CCD sensor which is the highest resolution so far
