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First Perminent image
The first perminent image was taken in 1826 by the french inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. He took a photo of the countryside by burning it onto a chemical-coated pewter plate. -
First Photo Of A Person
In early 1839 the french painter and chemist Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre took photographs of a Paris street screen from his apartment window using a camera obscura.The long exposure time (several minutes) means moving objects like pedestrians and carriages didn't appear in the photo. However an unidentified man stoped for a shoeshine remaining still for long enough, to unwittingly become the first person ever photographed. -
The First Ariel Photo
Felix Tournachonhe was the first to capture an aerial photograph in a tethered balloon over Paris in 1858. -
First Colour Photo
The enormously influential Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell creates a rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue. His photo of a multicolored ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three-color method, until then just a theory, and sets the stage for further color innovation, particularly by the Lumißre brothers in France. -
First Action Photo
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge took a photo series in 1878 of a galloping horse, he used 12 camras each outfitted with a tip of wire. -
First underwater colour photo
Achthyologist William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin used an Autochrome camera and a raft full of explosive magnesium flash powder to illuminate the shallows of Florida's Dry Tortugas to make the first undersea color photographs. -
First Photo From Space
Researchers with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory strap a 35-millimeter camera to a German V-2 missile and launched it into space from White Sands Missile Range In New Mexic. The camera snapped a photo every second and a half -
First Map Of The Night Sky
National Geographic teamed up with the California Institute of Technology for the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a seven-year project to produce the first photographic map of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky. -
First Magazine In Colour
After decades of pioneering color photography technology, The National Geographic magazine introduced a new era in February 1962, becoming the first major American magazine to print an all-color issue. The magazine goes on to publish more in colour throughout 1962, producing than any other magazine. -
The First Digital Camra
Kodak releases the first Digital camra in 1991. The device was very expensive and was marked to professional photographers.Over the next five years, several companies came out with more affordable models, and today, the market is overwhelmed with thousands of digital still camera models.
