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First photographic image
Joseph Niecpe achieves first photographic image with a camera obscura. The image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded -
Louis Daguerre’s first Daguerreotype
The first image that was fixed and did not fade and only needed 30 minutes of light exposure. -
Louis Daguerre patents the Daguerreotype
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André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri introduces a camera with multiple lens
Disdéri introduced a camera with multiple lenses, which could reproduce eight individually exposed images on a single negative. -
James Clerk Maxwell produces first colour photograph
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Richard Maddox invents gelatin emulsion
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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
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Celluloid film base introduced
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George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera
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Kodak n°1 box camera
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First Brownie is introduced by Kodak
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120 Film is introduced by Kodak
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Leica introduces 35mm format to still photography
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135 film is introduced to make 35mm easy to use
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Kodacolour film is introduced by Kodak
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Hasselblad 1600F camera is introduced
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Edwin Land introduced first instant image polariod camera
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Contax S SLR camera is introduced
The first 35mm SLR with pentaprism for eye-level viewing -
3D film craze begins
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Leica M is introduced
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Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.
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Polaroid introduces first instant colour film
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Kodak introduces the Instamatic
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Pentax Spotmatic SLR
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Konica introduces first point and shoot, autofocus camera
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Canon introduces first digital still-camera
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Minolta markets world first AF SLR
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Fuji introduced the disposable
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Canon EOS introduced
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Nikon D1, 2.74 megapixel SLR is demonstrated
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Canon 5D is marketed
