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Photography through time
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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre introduces the daguerreotype in France.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's daguerreotype is a photograph created by exposing a copper plate that has been coated with light sensitive silver iodide. After exposing the plate, mercury vapor is used to develop the image. The resulting photograph is a very detailed positive image, but the image cannot be reproduced. -
Henry Fox Talbot introduces his Talbotype or Calotype in England
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Henry Fox Talbot
Henry Fox Talbot's Talbotype or calotype is a photograph made by exposing paper that has been made light sensitive by applying potassium iodide and silver nitrate. The image, when developed, is a negative. Multiple positive contact prints can be made from one negative. The negative is called a calotype, the prints are called salt prints. -
George Eastman's company Kodak introduces small cameras that use "dry" film
History of Eastman KodakGeorge Eastman's company Koday lauched the consumer photography industry with the slogan "you press the button, we do the rest." Consumers could buy rolls of flexible light-sensitive "film," expose images, and then send the film off to a lab to be developed and printed for them. This process put photography within reach of the everyday consumer - if you could afford it. -
Ihagee in Dresden Germany manufactures the first Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera
Kine Exakta - Wikipedia Ihagee (IHG) a camera manufactrer in Dresden, Germany, makes the first Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera called Kine Exakta. The Exakta used 35mm film cartridges (Kodak also began making 35mm film in 1936), and the user could focus the image by looking through a viewfinder. The design was durable and portable. -
Polaroid introduces one-step color prints in 60 seconds
Timeline from Polaroid company The Polaroid company introduces one-step self-developing film that produces color prints in 60 seconds. Like the daguerrotype, Polaroid's instant film creates one original "positive" print that cannot be reproduced. The Polaroid Land Camera, introduced in 1948, was the first instant camera. -
Apple releases the first digital camera for consumers, the QuickTake 100
About.com Digital CamerasApple releases the QuickTake 100, the first digital camera for consumers. It cost around $1,000 and could only be used with Macintosh computers. The camera would take 8 to 32 images at a time depending on the resolution. -
The Nikon Corporation announces the COOLPIX S51c, the first camera to use a wireless connection to the internet
Nikon News CoolPixThe Nikon Corporation launches the COOLPIX S51c, the first camera to use a wireless LAN connection to download pictures to the internet. -
Instagram is launched
Link to Instagram
Instagram is an online photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as media sites including Facebook or Twitter.[3] A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 16:9 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device camera
