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The first permanent image
Niepce set up a camera obscura, placed within it a polished pewter plate and uncapped the lens. After at least a day-long exposure of eight hours, the plate was removed and the latent image of the view from the window was rendered visible by washing it with a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum -
First photo of a person
Taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839, was the first-ever photograph of a person. It is an image of a busy street -
The first aerial photo
The first to successfully accomplish this feat was Gaspar Felix Tournachon or "Nadar" in 1858 when he photographed the houses of the French village of Petit-Becetre from a balloon tethered at a height of 80 meters. That image has unfortunately been lost. -
The first colour photo
The first permanent color photo was taken in 1861 by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell. when he took a picture of his multi-coloured ribbon -
The first action photos
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, begins taking photograph sequences that capture animals and humans in motion. -
The first under-water colour photo
W.H. Longley and Charles Martin takes first underwater colour photos using a magnesium powered flash -
The first photo from space
This photo was taken on board the V-2 missile at an altitude of 65 miles -
The first photo-map of the night sky
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The first all colour magazine
The first all colour magazine was made by national geographic -
The first digital camera
Kodak releases the first commercially available, professional digital camera in 1991.
