Photography Dates

Question 0

1834

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Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. He created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.

Question 1

1826

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Niepce achieves first photographic image with the Durable lightfast camera - however, the image required Eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

Question 2

1837

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Louis Daguerre’s first Daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under Thirty minutes of light exposure.

Question 3

1838 or 1839

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first photo with a Person

Question 4

1841

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William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first Multiple copies

Question 5

1851

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Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure

Question 6

1861

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Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates a color photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter. The photos were turned into lantern slides and projected in registration with the same color filters. This is the “color separation” method

Question 7

1861-1965

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Mathew Brady and staff (mostly staff) covers the American Civil War , exposing 7000 negatives

Question 8

1871

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Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - no longer had to be developed immediately

Question 9

1878

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Eadweard Muybridge made a Photographic demonstration of a moving horse, airborne during a trot, using a trip-wire system

Question 10

1884

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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

Question 11

1888

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Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.

Question 12

1900

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First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie

Question 13

1927

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General Electric invents the modern Flash bulb

Question 14

1957

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The first image in the history of Digital photography was produced on a computer by Russell Kirsch. It was a scanned image of Kirsch’s son

Question 15

1963

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Polaroid introduces instant color film.

Question 16

1975

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Steve Sasson created the Digital still camera using the CCD image sensor technology

Question 17

1978

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Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.

Question 18

1980

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Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.

Question 19

1981

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First consumer camera that did not require Film was produced by Sony, the Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera) electronic still camera. The camera produced 720,000-pixel images which were recorded as magnetic impulses on a two-inch floppy disk. Up to 50 images could be stored on a single disc.

Question 20

1984

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Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

Question 21

1986

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Kodak scientists created the first sensor that could detect megapixels. The sensor produced a 5x7 inch digital print

Question 22

1990

Answer 22

Adobe Photoshop released.

Question 23

1990

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A leap forward in the digital photography timeline took place with the first ____dSLR___ released by Kodak. The Kodak DCS-100 had a 1.3 mega pixel sensor, a Nikon F-3 body, and could store 32 images on 1 MB RAM. It allowed photojournalists to get their images back to their agencies with great speed although it cost around 13,000 USD.

Question 24

1990

Answer 24

First black and white __Dycam Model 1 _ (introduced by Logitech).

Question 25

1992

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Kodak_ introduces Photo CD

Question 26

1994

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First __Apple QuickTake 100 ( USB)__________. Apple Quicktake 100 camera was the first to connect to the home computer by a USB cable. It had a 640 x 480 pixel CCD and produced eight images which could be stored in its internal memory.

Question 27

1999

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Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up DSLR design by a leading manufacturer. The Nikon D1 was the first camera on our digital photography timeline to be a serious competitor to the film SLR market. By now, digital cameras had at least __2.0__ megapixels.

Question 28

2000

Answer 28

First _camera phone____ introduced.