Camera

By Akhil_borra

  • Silver Nitrate

    Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened when it is exposed to light

  • Camera Obscura

    Camera Obscura
    Joseph Niepce takes the first photpraph using camera obscura-The image required eight hours of light exposure and light faded

  • Daguerreotype photograph

    Daguerreotype photograph
    Louis Daguerre takes the first Daguerreotype photograph. The first image was fixed, did not fade, and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure

  • First Patent

    First Patent
    First American Patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolocott for his camera.

  • Calotype Process

    Calotype Process
    William Henry Tablot patents the calotype process, which is the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies

  • Collodion Process

    Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.

  • Panoramic camera

    Panoramic camera
    Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.

  • Mass-Market

    Mass-Market
    First mass-marketed camera-The Brownie

  • Flash

    Flash
    GE invests the modern flast bulb

  • SLR

    Mass production of the Modern SLR cameras by Nikon and Cannon

  • Instant Color Film

    Instant Color Film
    Polariod invents instant color film

  • Point-and-shoot

    Point-and-shoot
    Konica invents the first point-and-shoot camera