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Jan 1, 1000
The Camera Obscura
During 1000AD unknown day/month, the first known camera called the Camera Obscrua was invented by ancient Greeks and ancient Chinese people. It was a small box that projected images when light passed through it.
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The First Photographic Image
One day in 1827 unknown day/month, Joseph Nicephore Niepce devolved the first photographic image with the Camera Obscura. People used the Obscura for viewing or drawing purposes, not for photographs. The pictures were made by letting sunlight draw the pictures, but it takes eight hours of light exposure to Create the image, but would soon after the picture would fade.
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Progress to capture images
In 1829 (unknown day/month), Louis Daquerre who was the inventor of the first progress of practice. He also experimented ways to capture images. So he and Joseph Niepce formed a partnership to improve the progress Niepce already made.
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Daquerre's Daquerreotype
In 1839 (unknown day and month), following several years of experimenting and Niepce's death, Louis Daquerre developed a new effective method of photograpghy and named it after himself. He called it the Daquerre's Daquerreotype. The process would create a long lasting image that would not change if it were exposed to light.
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Wet Plate Negative
In 1851 (unknown day and month), Fredick Scoff Archer invented the Wet Plate Negative. He coated glass with light sensitive silver salts, because it was glass and not paper. The Wet Plate created a more stable and detailed negative.
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Tintypes
In 1856 (unknown day and month) Hamilton Smith created Tintypes. It was a thin sheet of iron used to provide a base for light-sensitive material yielding a positive image.
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The Dry Plate
In 1879 (unknown day and month), the dry plates were invented. They could be stored for a period of time. This meant photographs no longer needed portable dark rooms, dry processes absorbed light so rapidly that the hand held cameras were possible.
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Flexible Film
In 1889 (unknown day and month), George Eastman invented film that was flexible, unbreakable and could be rolled.
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35 MM Camera
In 1905 (unknown day and month), Oskar Barnack had the idea of reducing the format of film negatives and enlarging the photographs. After they were exposed he put his theory into practice. He took an instrument for taking exposure samples and made it into the worlds first 35 MM Camera.
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Colorful Films
In the 1940's (unknown day and month), commercial viable colorful films (except Kodachrome) were brought to the market, the films used modern technology in which a chemical progress connects three dye layers together to create an apparent color image.
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Polaroid Camera
In 1948 (unknown day and month), Edwin Herbert Land who created a one-step progress for developing and printing photos, called instant photography. It was called The Polaroid Camera.
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Digital Camera
In 1984 (unknown day and month), Canon demonstrated the first digital electronic still Camera.
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