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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Early lens
The earliest lens are said to have been made by Da vinci he drew them in his journals -
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Celluloid Roll Film
A combination of two technologies, silver halides and celluloid based emulsions continued getting improved upon. In 1835, Henry Fox Talbot invented a viable method of spreading a gelatine emulsion on paper. In 1839, astronomer John Herschel came up with a way to fix the image recorded by silver halides. -
First Camera
John Zahn in the early 1800's inveted the first camera -
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Photojournalism
Photography was making it's was into the news. It's early uses were during the crimson war of 1853 -
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Moving pictures
Moving pictures or motion pictures enhanced photography -
KODAK
George Eastman invented the button camera " you push the button we do the rest." -
35mm Film and the Leica: 1913
the 135 was a common format for film, it was used for motion pictures and filmed vertically -
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35mm SLRs: 1957 & 1959
35mm was most popular during this time, 1957 the first single lens camera was made -
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Digital Reigns Supreme: 1975 - Present
This is current day photography, the first digital cameras were in the 1980's and 1990's. Then in 1999 the Nikon was introduced which was built to be digital -
Present Day
We now have professional cameras at our fingertips with our smartphones
