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300 BCE
The beginning!
The first dark "camera" was used. -
1521
The first writing about the "dark camera" was published.
The writing had events made by Aristotle -
The first "camera" was invented.
This was not a camera as such, it was a cabin that allowed images to be seen outside through glass. -
The first silver salts treatise was published.
Silver salt chambers were exposed to light and the way to reveal the images was a bit late -
The first pictures were taken.
The photograph was taken from one of the windows of an upper floor of a farm in the French region of Burgundy. This image was captured through a process known as blueprint, which uses a piece of glass or metal coated with Judean bitumen that forms the image by reacting it to light. -
The daguerreotype was spread.
For this was added a polished silver plate to the Niépce mechanism, on which the impressions were produced, thus greatly reducing the exposure time. -
The wet collodion was invented.
It consisted of pouring a varnish called collodion on a very clean and polished glass plate. The collodion was previously sensitized to silver nitrate, all exposed to the same dark chamber procedure. Once the capture was made, it was developed in ammoniacal iron sulfate. -
The first attempt at color photography was made.
During the 19th century, attempts were made to obtain color photographs. The first was obtained by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, by taking three consecutive photographs with a red, blue and green filter each, and then superimposing them on a projection and obtaining the desired colors. However, there was no way to fix colors to the photo, and photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries were generally hand-colored using watercolors, oils, or other pigments. -
The first attempt at the magnesium based flash was made.
The flash or illuminator was first used in the early 20th century. It consisted of a mixture of fine magnesium powders that were ignited with a detonator, producing a small explosion that illuminated the surroundings, but also a cloud of toxic gases -
The dry plates were invented.
It allowed to obtain glass negatives that could be positivized on paper to make copies of the photo. This technique also used glass sheets that were coated with a solution of cadmium bromide, water and gelatin sensitized with silver nitrate, and then exposed in a camera obscura to the image to be captured. With the “dry plates” it was allowed to use dry materials and reduce the exposure time to a quarter of a second, something very close to the subsequent instant photography. -
The camera with 100 reels was commercialized.
The Kodak 100 Vista camera, which used reels of 100 circular photos, was launched onto the market, and for the promotional campaign it coined the phrase "You press the button, we do the rest". The most important thing is that from this moment on, great knowledge in photography or in the use of chemical products was no longer required. -
The first flexible photographic film was created.
George Eastman invented the first flexible and transparent film, in cellulose nitrate strips, marking a before and after in the conception of photography. -
The first color plate was made.
The first color photographic plate was patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers, and brought in 1907 to commercial markets under the name Autochrome. With glass support, they were based on a grid system of points similar to the one that later had the color TV -
The first 35mm camera was created.
The German inventor and photographer Oskar Barnack introduced the Leica camera to the market, which used a new film format: 35 mm, also known as the Leica or Barnack format. This format revolutionized the film and film industry. It consisted of a small film, of the 135 format, 35 millimeters wide, with an aspect ratio of 3: 2 and a size on the diagonal of about 43mm. -
The first flash lamp was appeared.
The flash lamp or bulb flash was invented, an initially external accessory, which used electricity to generate the light discharge. -
The first color film was appeared in a camera.
Color photographic film was only invented in 1935 by the Eastman Kodak company and marketed as Kodachrome. In 1936 the version of Agfa, called Agfacolor, came to stay. -
The first digital camera was announced by Kodak.
Digital photography is the most recently invented aspect, which takes advantage of the technologies brought about by the Computer Revolution of the late 20th century. It allowed, among other things, the suppression of the photographic roll and all forms of chemical development, saving the images directly in electronic or computerized format. -
The first camera for mobile portables were invented.
The camera for mobiles was invented in June 1997 by Philippe Kahn, an invention for which he combined laptops, mobiles and digital cameras; and with whom he shared the photograph of his newborn daughter. -
The first cellphone with a digital camera was launched.
In 2000 Sharp and J-Phone created their first phone equipped with a camera. The J-SH04's camera was capable of taking pictures with a resolution of 0.1 megapixels for a 256-color display. -
The photo resolution on portable media was improved.
Until 2009, there was no real revolution in improving the image in cell photographs. Until then, Samsung, HTC, Nokia and Sony Ericsson (among other brands) had played between 3 and 8 megapixels. But it was not until 2009 when the first one launched the Samsung M8910 Pixon12, a terminal that came with a 12-megapixel camera. -
Actuality!
More and more camera resolution updates are received every year on portable devices, and they are all increasingly surprising. The resolution obtained so far has given us images of the highest quality and companies that are dedicated to this expect even more.
