Dates Flashcards
Italian scholars used the camera as a drawing apparatus. Instead of using a darkroom, they used box with a leans
and placed a mirrors
16th century
Camera Obscura was built – in with convex lens.
17th century
Thomas Wedgwood and Humphey Davy produced photograms
1800
The birth year of modern photography, the year when the
Science of Photography became a public knowledge.
1839
French Police used daguerreotypes for personal identification of known criminals.
1841
The earliest evidence of photographic documentation of prison inmates in Belgium and in 1851 in Denmark.
First mugshots
1843-1844
The year when photography was already well – developed.
1850
In the United States, one of the earliest applied Forensic Science was in photography.
Enlarged photographs of a signature were presented in a court case involving forgery.
1859
The first recorded use of accident photography which was admitted as evidence regarding an injured horse and a buggy.
1875
Full corrected lens were introduced
1890
The first mass – marketed camera (The Brownie).
1900
Will West case of Leavenworth highlight the value of
fingerprints.
1903
A plate was placed on the market that could reproduce all colors in equivalent shades of gray.
1906
In Denver, Colorado, all intoxicated persons were photographed at the Police station
1907
The State of Massachusetts approved the use of photographic speed recorders to detect speeding motorists.
1910
The first 35mm still camera was developed
1913-1914
Photoflash bulbs were used and readily accepted by the public.
1930
Eastman Kodak Company markets Kodachrome film
1935
Underwater camera for US navy was developed
1960
LASER was invented making possible holograms tridimensional pictures
1960
Polaroid Company introduced their Polacolor film making it
possible to take finished color pictures in less than a
minute.
1963
The introduction of the fully automatic electronic flash.
1965
The beginning of the use of video tapes as legal evidence
1967
Photograph of the Earth from the moon was done
1968
Colored photography has matured as an artistic medium.
1970
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX – 70 camera.
1973
George Eastman and Edwin Land were introduced into the National Inventor Hall of Fame.
1977
Konica introduces first point – and – shoot autofocus camera.
1978
Sony demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
1980
Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.
1985
Eastman Kodak Company announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
1990
Arrival of true digital cameras
1998
