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phtography timeline

  • Feb 26, 1021

    The idea

    the first idea of the camera appered in 1021 when an Iraqi Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham wrote Book of Optics.
  • The first picture

    the first photograph was taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1817 but faded within minuties due to not having the right chemecals.
  • the first permedent pcture

    The first permanent photograph was made in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
  • partnership

    Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore made a parnership so they could improve the process of photography and it worked.
  • daguerreotype

    Daguerre announced that he had invented a process using silver on a copper plate called the daguerreotype (the first publicly announced photographic process)
  • Calotype

    Talbot invented the calotype process.(paper coated with silver iodide)
  • Bellows camera

    Bellows camera
    Sergei Lvovich Levitsky designed a bellows camera which significantly improved the process of focusing and made the camera more poplar.
  • Color photo

    The first color photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell.
  • Roll film invented

    Roll film invented
    George Eastman,(founder of the Eastman Kodak Company) invented roll film.
  • Motion pictures

    Thomas Edison invents the kinetoscopic camera (motion pictures).
  • Brownie

    Brownie
    George Eastman invented the brownie (a simple and very inexpensive box camera)
  • Color

    The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed. (early color photography process)
  • 35mm

    35mm
    Oskar Barnack designs the 35 mm camera.
  • Kodak

    Kodak introduces the Instamatic (was a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load camera)
  • The first digital

    Apple QuickTake 100 camera was one of the first digital cameras that were avalible for the public.