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A Brief History in photography

By kieranjackson123

  • 1664-1666

    1664-1666
    Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.

  • 1814

    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.

  • 1851

    1851
    Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process so that images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.

  • 1884

    1884
    George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

  • 1900

    1900
    First mass-marketed camera, called the Brownie, goes on sale

  • 1932

    1932
    First light meter with photoelectric cell is introduced

  • 1977

    1977
    Pioneers George Eastman and Edwin Land are inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

  • 1984

    1984
    Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

  • 1999

    1999
    Kyocera Corporation introduces the VP-210 VisualPhone, the world's first mobile phone with built-in camera for recording videos and still photos.