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Jan 1, 1000
Camera Obscura
- Created by Ibn al-Haitham (aka Alhazen)
- This is an ancient technique
- Estimated to be invented in 11th century
- It was basically a dark room or a box. A inverted image was reflected through a hole in the wall.
- The artist would then trace the silhouette of the object.
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First Photograph Taken and Preserved
- Titled "View from the Window at Le Gras"- Taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce- The exposure time was an estimated 8 hoursThe chemical used was "Bitumen of Judea”. When exposed to light, Bitumen hardens so when washed, the unhardened material was removed. The metal plate was polished creating a negative image. This was coated in ink, which produced a print.
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First Photo with a Human In It
-Titled “Boulevard du Temple”-Taken in 1839 by Louis Daguerre-Exposure was 10 minutes-The male captured was getting his shoes shined -
First Colour Photograph
- A picture of a tartan ribbon- Taken in 861 by physicist James Clerk Maxwell
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Photographic Gun
- created by Etienne-Jules Marey in the 1880s- It was constructed so the French scientist that created it could learn how birds could fly - It operates by using a rotating glass plate to take 12 continuous pictures per second
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Roll of Film
- Invented by George Eastman- Created in 1889
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First Underwater Photo
- The camera was created by French scientist, Louis Boutan.
- Developed in 1893
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Kodak Brownie
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Colour Photographs
- Colour film was introduced to the market in the 1940s
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First Digital Camera
- There is debate of what company created the first digital camera.
- It is more widely believed that Kodak created it.
- Apparently, a man named Willis Adcock invented the filmless camera for Texas Instruments, but there is no evidence.
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Prototype for Digital Camera
- Created December, 1975
- Was a sizable 8-pound box, several inches high.
- Took 30-seconds to take a photograph
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Fuji DS-1P
- First to store digital images
- First to act like a digital camera
- Released in 1988, with a memory card
- Never sold in the U.S.
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Image/ Storage Formats
- Most of the first digital cameras used video floppy formats, besides the one by Kodak. That particular camera used a digital cassette tape.
- Later on, in the 1990s, they used other types of memory forms such as SD.
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First Digital Camera with LCD Screen
- Released in 1995
- Released by Casio
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First Compact Flash Sensor
- Kodak released the first digital camera with a compact flash sensor.
