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400 BCE
Mozi records the image created by light rays
The Chinese philosopher Mozi draws and records the image created by light rays from a pinhole into a dark room. -
350 BCE
Aristotle understands the Principles of pinhole photography
Greek philosopher Aristotle studies the patterns that light makes when it shines through leaves and sieves. -
1000
Alhazen invents the camera obscura
Arab mathematician and physicist Alhazen invents the camera obscura whilst studying the human sight. He also observes that the projection is the opposite of the item. -
1267
Roger Bacon makes optical illusions camera obscura concept and mirrors
The english monk and scientist Roger Bacon created optical illusions by using the concept of light and shadows along with mirrors. -
1544
Reinerus illustrates the camera obscura room.
Dutch scientist Reinerus Gemma-Frisius illustrates the darkened rooms of the camera obscura -
Johannes Kepler names the camera obscura
Italian author and scholar Johannes Kepler coins the term camera obscura to name what people have been experimenting with light. -
Wedgwood made silhouettes on silver nitrate cover paper
Wedgwood created silhouettes of objects by contact printing them onto paper covered in silver nitrate. -
Niepce made the first photographic image
French scientist made the first photograph in a camera obscura by placing an engraving onto a metal plate covered in bitumen into the light. -
The daguerretype is created
The french scientist Louis Daguerre made a photograph by fixing an image to a silver plate when covering it in iodine, putting it in the camera obscura and let it expose. -
Talbot perfects the calotype
English botanist and mathematician Henry Fox Talbot had worked on creating a way to make several copies of images by putting an image in a silver-salt solution and exposing it light making it turn negative. Contact prints could then be made with them. -
Archer invents the wet plate negative
English sculptor Frederick Scoff Archer created the wet-plate negative using a collodion solution to coat glass with light sensitive salts. -
Maddox creates the dry-plate process
Dr Richard L. Maddox used image plates covered in dried gelatin so that they could be developed later on. -
Eastman invents flexible roll film
George Eastman an industrialist and photographer creates a film for photos that could not be broken and could be rolled up. Now box cameras could be mass produced. -
The Lumiere's release the autochrome
Augusta and Louis Lumiere create the autochrome which is a colour screen film material and the first additive -
Land invents the polaroid camera
Dr Edward Land invented the first instant photo process originally called Polaroid Land. -
Canon demonstrates the first digital camera
The company Canon demonstrated the first digital camera which they had created. -
Adobe release photoshop 1.0
The company Adobe created and released the photo editing program for the mackintosh named Photoshop 1.0. -
Sharp and J-Phone release the first camera phone
The company Sharp and J-Phone created and released the first ever camera phone to the public in Japan.