Camera timesline
- 1. Camera timelineBy Keesha Anderson
- 2. 5th-4th Centuries B.C.Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
- 3. 1664-1666Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors
- 4. In the 17001727-Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.1974- First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker
- 5. In the 18001814- Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded1837-Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.1840-First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.1843-First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.1851-Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.1859-Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.1861-Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
- 6. In the 18001865Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.1871Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.1880Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.1884George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.1888Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.1898Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
- 7. Early 19001900-First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.1913/1914-First 35mm still camera developed.1927-General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.1932First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.1935Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
- 8. In the mid 19001941-Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.1942-Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).1948-Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.1954-Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film1960-EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.1963-Polaroid introduces instant color film.1968-Photograph of the Earth from the moon
- 9. Late 19001973-Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.1977-George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.1978-Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera1980-Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.1984-Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.1985-Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.1990-Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.