Photography Throughout Time: A Visual Timeline

  • The First Camera

    The First Camera
    Niépce creates the first permanent image, it was a view from a window at Le Gras. The first time an image had been permanently created.
  • The First Look At Coloured Photo

    The First Look At Coloured Photo
    James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates a colour photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter.
  • The Invention of Film

    The Invention of Film
    George Eastman invented roll film, the invention was used for motion picture film, it was also used by early film makers and Thomas Edison.
  • The First Underwater Colour Photo

    The First Underwater Colour Photo
    First underwater colour photo was invented by Charles Martin & W.H. Longley. They equipped the cameras encased in waterproof housing and pounds of highly explosive magnesium flash powder for underwater illumination.
  • First Photo Taken in Space

    First Photo Taken in Space
    The first photo in space was taken from an altitude of 65 miles above the surface of New Mexico. It was captured by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera as that camera was propelled skyward on a German V-2 missile.
  • Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still camera

    Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still camera
    It used the then-new solid-state CCD image sensor chips developed by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1973. The camera weighed 3.6 kg, recorded black and white images to a compact cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixels, and took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December 1975.
  • Kodak introduces disk camera

    Kodak introduces disk camera
    Kodak introduces disk camera, using an 8x11mm frame. The same as in the Minox spy camera. The film was in the form of a flat disc, and was fully housed within a plastic cartridge. Each disc held fifteen 10 × 8 mm exposures, arranged around the outside of the disc, with the disc being rotated 24° between each image.
  • Rob Silvers publishes Photomosaics

    Rob Silvers publishes Photomosaics
    Photomosaics is a large-scale detailed picture or map built up by combining photographs of small areas.
  • Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone

    Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone
    The J-SH04 was a mobile phone made by Sharp Corporation, It was Japan's first ever phone with a built-in camera
  • Pentax introduce the K-1 FF/35mm

    Pentax introduce the K-1 FF/35mm
    Pentax introduce the K-1 FF/35mm 36Mpx camera with GPS, Wi-Fi, 5 Axis 5 stops in body stabilisation, astro-tracer, pixel shift HD images, and other advanced features.