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First Photograph
The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. It was tawen in 8 hours exposure time -
Improved the short exposure time
Niepce and Daquerre improved the short exposure time. -
The first daquerreotype
Was the first publicly announced photographic process and the first to come into widespread use. It was invented by Louis Daguerre, who named it after himself. -
Calotype was invented
It was introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. -
The first permanent color photo
Maxwell created the image of the tartan ribbon shown here by photographing it three times through red, blue, and yellow filters, then recombining the images into one color composite. -
Photographic film was invented
It was a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals. -
35mm camera was released
Oskar Barnack built his prototype 35 mm camera around 1913, though further development was delayed for several years by World War I. -
Modern flash bulb was invented
Paul Vierkötter used the same principle in 1925, when he ignited magnesium electronically in a glass globe. In 1929 the Vacublitz, the first true flashbulb made from aluminum foil sealed in oxygen. -
Kodachrome film was invented
Kodachrome is a brand name for a non-substantive, color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography. -
Polaroid camera appeared
Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid Corporation, demonstrated instant photography to the Optical Society of America. -
Digital camera was released
Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1984.
