Timeline of photography technology

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Timeline of photography technology

The first photograph of a scene, by Niépce, 1826^[1]

First photograph including a person, by Daguerre, 1838 or 1839

First color image, Maxwell, 1861

An 1877 color photo by Louis Ducos du Hauron, a French pioneer of color photography. The overlapping yellow, cyan, and red subtractive color elements can clearly be seen.

High speed photography, Muybridge, 1878

• 1822 – Nicéphore Niépce takes the first permanent photograph, of an engraving of Pope Pius VII, using a non-lens contact-printing "heliographic process", but it was destroyed later; the earliest surviving example is from 1825.^[1]
• 1826 – Nicéphore Niépce takes the first permanent photograph from nature,^[1] a landscape that required an eight hour exposure.
• 1835 – William Fox Talbot creates his own photography process.
• 1839 – Louis Daguerre patents the daguerreotype.
• 1839 – William Fox Talbot invented the positive / negative process widely used in modern photography. He refers to this as photogenic drawing.
• 1839 – John Herschel demonstrates hyposulfite of soda (also known as hypo, or sodium thiosulfate) as a fixer, and makes the first glass negative.
• 1851 – Introduction of the collodion process by Frederick Scott Archer.
• 1854 – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri credited with introduction of the carte de visite (French "visiting card"). Disdéri introduced a rotating camera which could reproduce eight individually exposed images on a single negative. After printing on albumen paper, the images were cut apart and glued to calling card-sized mounts. These tiny portraits were left by visiting friends, which inspired the name carte de visite.
• 1861 – The first color photograph, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon, is shown by James Clerk Maxwell.
• 1868 – Louis Ducos du Hauron patents a method of subtractive color photography.
• 1871 – The gelatin emulsion is invented by Richard Maddox.
• 1876 – F. Hurter & V. C. Driffield begin systematic evaluation of sensitivity characteristics of photographic emulsions – science of sensitometry.
• 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge made a high-speed photographic demonstration of a moving horse, airborne during a trot, using a trip-wire system.
• 1887 – Celluloid film base introduced.
• 1888 – Kodak n°1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.
• 1887 – Gabriel Lippmann invents a "method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference".
• 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the "kinetoscopic camera" (motion pictures).
• 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière – Invented the cinématographe.
• 1898 – Kodak introduced their Folding Pocket Kodak.
• 1900 – Kodak introduced their first Brownie.
• 1901 – Kodak introduced the 120 film.
• 1902 – Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to signals that can be transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
• 1907 – The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
• 1912 – Vest Pocket Kodak using 127 film.
• 1913 – Kinemacolor, the first commercial "natural color" system for movies is invented.
• 1914 – Kodak introduced the Autographic film system.
• 1920s – Yasujiro Niwa invented a device for phototelegraphic transmission through cable and later via radio.
• 1923 – Doc Harold Edgerton invents the xenon flash lamp and strobe photography.
• 1925 – The Leica introduced the 35mm format to still photography.
• 1932 – The first full-color Technicolor movie, Flowers and Trees, is made by Disney.
• 1934 – The 135 film cartridge was introduced, making 35mm easy to use.
• 1936 – Introduction by IHAGEE of the Ihagee Kine Exakta 1, the first 35mm. Single Lens reflex camera.
• 1936 – Development of Kodachrome multi-layered reversal color film.
• 1937 – Agfacolor-Neu reversal color film.
• 1939 – Agfacolor negative-positive color material, the first modern "print" film.
• 1939 – The View-Master stereo viewer is introduced.
• 1942 – Kodacolor, Kodak's first "print" film.
• 1947 – Dennis Gabor invents holography.
• 1947 – Edgerton develops the Rapatronic camera for the U.S. government.
• 1948 – The Hasselblad camera was introduced.
• 1948 – Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant image camera.
• 1952 – The 3-D film craze begins.
• 1954 – Leica M Introduced

The first image scanned into a digital computer, 1957

• 1957 – First Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.
• 1957 – First digital image produced on a computer by Russell Kirsch at U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST). [1]
• 1959 – Nikon F introduced.
• 1959 – AGFA introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
• 1963 – Kodak introduces the Instamatic.
• 1964 – First Pentax Spotmatic SLR introduced.
• 1973 – Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip; 100 rows and 100 columns.
• 1975 – Bryce Bayer of Kodak develops the Bayer filter mosaic pattern for CCD color image sensors.
• 1986 – Kodak scientists invent the world's first megapixel sensor.
• 2005 – AgfaPhoto files for bankruptcy. Production of Agfa brand consumer films ends.
• 2006 – Dalsa produces 111 megapixel CCD sensor, the highest resolution at its time.
• 2008 – Polaroid announces it is discontinuing the production of all instant film products, citing the rise of digital imaging technology.
• 2009 - Kodak announces the discontinuance of Kodachrome film. [2]

[edit] See also

• Timeline of historic inventions
• List of inventions named after people

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• The Photo History Timeline Collection
• More about the earliest photograph
• In the eye of the camera — Illustrated historical essay about early photography
• Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging