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Jan 1, 1000
Pinhole Camera
Alhazen invents pinhole camera http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm -
Jan 1, 1500
Common Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura became commonly used for viewing images
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"Camera Obscura" Entered Common Speech
Johannes Kepler coined the phrase "Camera Obscura," which would eventually lead to the current name, "Camera" -
First Photographic image
Joseph Nicephore Nieps took the first photographic image with a glass plate coated in bitumen http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/heliography.html -
First Lasting Photograph
Niepce takes the first photograph that lasted for a substantial time
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Niepce partners with Daguerre
Niepce allies with Louis Daguerre, another man intereseted in pphotgraphy
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Niepce's Death
Niepce Dies, causing Daguerre to have to work alone
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Rights to the Daguerrotype Made Free
Daguerre gave the rights to the French government, for free, in exchange for a lifetime pension, to allow daguerrotypes to be made and sold anywhere
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Daguerreotype
Daguerre invents teh Dageurreotype, a tool that developed photographs more effectively and efficiently http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/dagdag.html -
Calotype
Henry Fox Talbot creates the calotype, the first photography tool to use negatives http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/features/ephotos/ctypes.htm -
Wet Plate Negatives
Wet plate negatives created, allowing much sharper mages to be created http://www.somersetphotography.com/glass_negatives.htm -
Dry Plate Negative
Dry plate negatives created, which were much more efficien than wet plate negatives, and led to film rolls
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Film!
Film was invented, allowing portable cameras to be easily mass produced
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First colored film
The first colored film, Kodachrome, is made by Kodak, allowing pictures to be colored
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35 mm film
The first 35mm film camera was created by kodak
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Colored film widely available
Commercially efficient colored film was introduced to the market, allowing most people to take colored pictures for much less than it preciously cost
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Polaroid
First Polaroid Camera sold to the general public, allowing for instant photography
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Triacetate film
Triacetate film was created, which was not only tougher, but fireproof. This was used by most movies at the time.
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Digital Camera
Canon revealed the first still from a digital camera
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Digital Camera Available
Digital Camera became readily available, allowing photography as it is today to flourish
