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Nicéphore Niépce Creates First Permanent Photograph
Nicéphore Niépce Creates the First Permanent Photograph in the Burgundy region of France, this is the first major discovery or event in Photography. The topic of Photography will only get better and better from here onwards -
Louis Daguerre and the Daguerreotype
French painter Louis Daguerre teamed up with Niépce in an effort to minimise the large exposure time needed to render an image. Niépce died in 1833, but Daguerre continued the work and eventually developed a more effective method. -
Roger Fenton Becomes First War Photographer
Roger Fenton rose to fame in England during the 1850s. Originally found for his architecture and landscape photography, Fenton was ordered to cover the Crimean War in 1855, therefore becoming the world’s first war photographer. -
First Photographs to be Liscenced for International Commercial use
William England, chief photographer with the London Stereoscopic Company, gathered with 5,000 other spectators to watch Charles Blondin attempt to cross from Canada to the USA by walking along a tightrope above the Niagara River. England captured Blondin’s successful 335 metre walk across the river. His images were among the first to be licensed for international commercial use. -
First animated image sequence
Eadweard Muybridge uses a row of cameras with trip-wires to make a high-speed photographic sequence of a galloping horse. Each picture is taken in less than two-thousandth of a second, and they are taken in an extremely fast sequence (about 25 per second) that they constitute a brief real-time "mini-movie" that can be watched by using a device such as a zoetrope. -
The Roll Standard
1 year after introducing a simplified camera suitable for the general public (the Kodak Number 1).
Thomas Edison took Eastman’s 70mm Kodak film roll, slit it down the middle, and cut transport perforations down both sides. This 35mm format would become the international standard for motion picture cameras and, eventually, still -
Pocket Camera
German engineer Oskar Barnack became the first person to make a portable, easy to use and light weight camera. This camera was called the Leica. -
Digital Camera
Steven Sasson invented a big blue device that could capture an image, convert the information into an electronic signal, then digitize the signal and store it in memory. This first digital camera, which weighed 3.6kg, captured a black and white image with a resolution of .01 megapixels. It took 23 seconds to record the image onto the storage medium — a cassette — and an additional 23 seconds to read the image and display it on a TV screen. -
The Death of Film Photography?
Building upon Steven Sasson’s amazing invention of the digital still camera, Kodak released the first commercially available digital SLR in 1991. Known as the Kodak DCS-100 it was practically a modified Nikon F3 shell equipped with a 1.3 megapixel sensor and an external storage unit with a capacity of 200 MB, capable of storing 156 uncompressed images. -
Mobile Photos
J-SH04 introduced the J-Phone, the first commercially available mobile phone with a camera that can take and share still pictures with one device.
