Photography Dates Flashcards
1834
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.
1826
Niepce achieves first photographic image with the Durable lightfast camera - however, the image required Eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
1837
Louis Daguerre’s first Daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under Thirty minutes of light exposure.
1838 or 1839
first photo with a Person
1841
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first Multiple copies
1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure
1861
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
1861-1965
Mathew Brady and staff (mostly staff) covers the American Civil War , exposing 7000 negatives
1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - no longer had to be developed immediately
1878
Eadweard Muybridge made a Photographic demonstration of a moving horse, airborne during a trot, using a trip-wire system
1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
1900
First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie
1927
General Electric invents the modern Flash bulb
1957
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
1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film.
1975
Steve Sasson created the Digital still camera using the CCD image sensor technology
1978
Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
1981
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.
1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
1986
Kodak scientists created the first sensor that could detect megapixels. The sensor produced a 5x7 inch digital print
1990
Adobe Photoshop released.
1990
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.
