Timeline of photography technology
- 1826 – NicŽphore Nipce takes the first permanent photograph
- 1835 – William Fox Talbot produces early permanent photographs through
his own process. - 1839 – Jacques Daguerre patents the the Daguerreotype.
- 1840 – William Fox Talbot invented the positive / negative process of photography used in all modern photography. He refers to this as photogenic drawing.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge made high-speed time lapse photographic
demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system. - 1887 – Celluloid film introduced.
- 1888 – Kodak n¡1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.
- 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the “kinetoscopic camera” (motion pictures)
- 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere – Invented the cinŽmatographe
- 1898 – Kodak introduced their Folding Pocket Kodak
- 1900 – Kodak introduced their first Brownie.
- 1901 – Kodak introduced the 120 film.
- 1902 – Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
- 1907 – The Autochrome Lumire is the first color photography process marketed.
- 1912 – Vest Pocket Kodak using 127 film.
- 1914 – Kodak introduced the Autographic system.
- 1925 – The Leica introduced the 35mm format to still photography.
- 1934 – The 135 film cartridge was introduced, making 35mm easy to use.
- 1936 – Development of Kodachrome multy-layered color film.
- 1948 – The Hasselblad camera was introduced.
- 1948 – Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant image camera.
- 1957 – First Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.
- 1959 – Nikon F introduced.
- 1959 – Agfa introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
- 1963 – Kodak introduces the Instamatic
- 1965 – First Pentax Spotmatic SLR introduced.
- 1973 – Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip; 100 rows and 100 columns.