Photography

First ever photographic image.

1814

Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

First ever photographic image.

1814

Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

Progression.

1837

Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype, an image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

Further progression

1851

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

Film

1884

George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

The Brownie

1900

First mass-marketed camera, called the Brownie, goes on sale.

First still camera

1913

First 35mm still camera is developed.

Polaroid

1948

Edwin Land launches and markets the Polaroid camera.

Instant colour

1963

Polaroid introduces the instant color film.