Timeline of Photography:
1666
Issac Newton discovers white light is composed of colours
1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light
1814
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - 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 less than thirty minutes of light exposure
1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure
1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer
1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera
1925
Oskar Barnack created first LECIA camera. His diminutive, lightweight LEICA A offered a new, undreamed-of freedom in reportage and artistic photography.
1948
Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera
1963
Polaroid introduces instant colour film
1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon
1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder
1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera
1985
The Minolta 7000 auto focus was created
1990
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 photo manipulation created
1998
The first consumer mega pixel camera was introduced
2000
first camera phone introduced in Japan
Thursday, 1 April 2010
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