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Period: 760 BCE to 100 BCE
B.C. - Optics/Lenses
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747 BCE
Babylonian - Lenses
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721 BCE
Layard - Nineah - Lenses
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420 BCE
Greek - Optics
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Period: 1000 to
Prior to the 20th Century
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Isaac Newton - Color Spectrum
White is composed of colors. http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/bh.html https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sir-isaac-newton -
Johann Heinrich Schulze - Sun Prints
A professor of anatomy, discovered that a piece of chalk dipped in nitrate turned black when exposed to the sun and the other side stayed white. -
Nicephore Niepce - Heliographic process
A French inventor. Developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate. -
Louis Daguerre
A French artist and Photographer. Invented the daguerreotype process, which produces highly detailed permanent photographs on silver-plated sheets of copper. -
William Henry Talbot - Calotype process
Patents the calotype process, the first negative-positive process making possible for multiple copies. -
Frederick Scott Archer - Collodion Process
Images only require two or three seconds of light exposure -
Andre-Adolphe-Eugene Disderi - calling card mounts
Uses a camera with multiple lenses that can photograph eight different poses on one large negative. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andre-Adolphe-Eugene-Disderi http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/Disderi%2C+Andre-Adolphe-Eugene -
James Clerk Maxwell - color separation
Presented a projected additive color image of multicolored ribbon, the first demonstration of color photography. It uses separate black-and-white photographs taken and projected through red, green, and blue color filters. http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/index.htm https://youtu.be/ANIkxDm8bF4 -
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Stereoscope viewer
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Eadweard Muybridge - real-time Movie
Uses a row of cameras with trip-wires to make high-speed photographic analysis of a galloping horse. https://www.biography.com/people/eadweard-muybridge-9419513?_escaped_fragment_= -
George Eastman - Kodak Roll-film Camera
The first easy-to-use camera, is introduced with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest." https://www.eastman.org/about-george-eastman https://www.thoughtco.com/george-eastman-history-of-kodak-1991619 -
Eastman - Celluloid Roll Film
The first commercially available transparent celluloid film -
Gabriel Lippmann - Phenomenon of Interference
A method of reproducing colors photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gabriel-lippmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAe3lkYNKt8 -
Period: to
20th Century
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Kodak - 120 Film
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George Albert Smith - Kinemacolor
A two-color process known as the first commercially successful color photography product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umUcv-K2urY https://www.youtube.com/user/DeBergeracProd -
35 MM Still Camera
First 35mm still camera is developed -
Kodak - Autographic Film System
Allowed photographers to add written information on the film at the time of exposure. -
Harold Edgerton - Flash Lamp
electric arc lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for very short durations. Used in photography for strobe lighting. -
Leica - 35mm Format
Used for still photography -
General Electric - Flash Bulb
General Electric invents the modern flash bulb -
Light Meter
First light meter with photoelectric cell is introduced -
135 Film Cartridge
135 film. The film is 35 mm (1.4 in) wide. Each image is 36×24 mm in the most common "full-frame" format (sometimes called "double-frame" for its relationship to the "single-frame" 35 mm movie format). -
Kodak - Kodachrome Film
Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film -
Multi-Layered Color Revesal Film
Introduction of Kodachrome multi-layered color reversal film. 16mm -
First 35 mm SLR Camera
IHAGEE introduced the Ihagee KIne Exakta 1 the first 35mm SLR camera -
Harold Edgerton - Rapatronic Camera
The rapatronic camera (a portmanteau of rapid action electronic) is a high-speed camera capable of recording a still image with an exposure time as brief as 10 nanoseconds. The camera was developed by Harold Edgerton in the 1940s and was first used to photograph the rapidly changing matter in nuclear explosions within milliseconds of ignition, using exposures of several microseconds -
Kodak - Koda-Color Negative Film
Eastman Kodak introduces Koda-color negative film -
Kodacolor
The first color film that yields negatives for making chromogenic color prints on paper. Roll films for snapshot cameras. (35mm in 1958) -
Dennis Gabor - Holography
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Contax S Camera - Pentarprism Eyelevel Viewfinder
The first 35mm SLR camera with a pentaprism eyelevel viewfinder -
Kodak - High-Speed Film
Eastman Kodak introduces high-speed Tri-X film -
EG & G - Underwater Camera
EG&G develops extreme underwater camera for U.S. Navy -
Polaroid - Instant Color Film
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Fairchild Semiconductor - CCD Chip
Released the first large image forming CCD chip: 100 rows and 100 columns of pixals -
Steve Sasson - Kodak - First Digital Camera
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Polaroid
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 Camera -
Konica - point-and-shoot autofocus camera
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Sony - Digital Camcorder
Sony demonstrates the first consumer camcorder for capturing moving picture. -
Canon - digital electronic still camera
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Pixar - Digital Imaging Processor
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Kodak - Megapixel Sensor
A fingernail sized solid state device capable of recording 1.4 million pixels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKVrfMeqWM0 -
JPEG & MPEG Standards Set
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Fuji - First True digital handheld camera
Fuji DS - 1P was the first true digital handheld camera that saved pictures on a 16MB SRAM internal memory card. -
Kodak - Photo Campact Disc
Eastman Kodak announces Photo Compact Disc as a digital image storage. -
Digital comes to SLR Cameras
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Smart Media & Compact Flash Cards
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Nikon - Optical-Stabilized Lens
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Kyocera Corporation - VisualPhone
The world's first mobile phone with built-in camera for recording videos and still photos. -
Mobile Phone Camera
J-SH04 introduced by J- Phone, the first commercially available mobile phone with a camera that could take and share still pictures. -
Period: to
21st Century
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111 Megapixel CCD Sensor
Dalsa produced a 111 megapixel CCD sensor. High resolution -
FujiFilm - Digital 3D Camera
Fujifilm launches world's first digital 3D camera with 3D printing capabilities. -
Kodak - Dicontinuing Kodachrome film
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Camera Refocusing Images
Lytro releases the first pocket-size consumer light-field camera that was capable of refocusing an image after it had been taken. https://www.dpreview.com/articles/5867769785/light-field-cameras-focusing-on-the-future -
Zeal iON - Google Goggles
Action cams put into goggles. The camera shoots 1080p footage through a 170-degree wide-angle lens and takes 8-megapixel still photos. It auto-adjusts for light conditions and includes sound recording.
https://youtu.be/qnW7keABZdw
