Timeline of Photography Technology

Chapter five

1822 Nicephore Niepce takes the first permanent photograph, (of an engraving) of *Pope Pius VII*, using a non-lens contact-printing “heliographic process”, but it was destroyed later; the earliest surviving example is from *1825*

In *1826* Nicephore Niepce takes the first permanent photograph from nature, a landscape that required an eight hour exposure

*1835* William Fox Talbot creates his own photograph process

*1839* Louis Daguerre patents the daguerreotype

*1839* William Fox Talbot invented the (positive / negative process) widely used in modern photography. He refers to this as photogenic drawings 

*1829* Johan Herschel demonstrates hyposulfite of soda (also known as hypo or sodium thiosulfate) as a fixer, and makes the first glass negative

 

*1851* Introduction of the collodion process by Frederick Scott Archer

*1854* Andre – A dolphe –Eugene Diaderi credited with introduction of the carte -de- visite (French “visiting card”). Disderi introduced a rotating camera, which could reproduce eight individually exposed images on a single (negative). After printing on albumen paper, the images were cut apart and glued to calling (card-sized) mounts. These tiny portraits were left by visiting friends, which inspired the name cart- de- visite.  

*1861* The first color photograph, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon, is shown by James Clerk Maxwell

*1868* Louis Ducos du Hauron patents a method of subtractive (color photograph).

*1871* The gelatin emulsion is invented by Richard Maddox

*1878* Eadweard Muybridge made a (high-speed) photographic demonstration of a moving horse, airborne during a trot, using a trip-wire system

*1887* Celluloid film base introduced.

*1887* Gabriel Lippmann invents a “method of reproducing colors photographically based on the phenomenon interference” gained him the (Nobel Prize) for Physics for *1908*.

*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 (cinematographe)

*1898* Kodak introduced their Folding Pocket Kodak

*1900* Kodak introduced their first (Brownie) and introduced the 120 film.

*1902* Arthur Korn devise practical photo telegraphy technology (reduction of photographic  images to signals that can be wire to other locations); wire-photos in wide use in Europe by *1910*, and  transmitted intercontinentally by *1922*.

*1907* The auto chrome  Lumiere is the first color photograph process marketed.

*1912* Vest Pocket Kodak using (127 films) .

*1913* Kinemacolor, the first commercial “natural color” system for movies is invented .

*1914* Kodak introduced the (Autographic) film system.

*1920* Yasujiro Niwa invented a device for (phototelegraphy) transmission through cable and later via radio.

*1923* Doc Harold Edgerton invents the (xenon flash lamp) and strobe photography.

*1925* The Lecia introduced the 35mm format to still photography.

*1932* The first full-color (Technicolor movie) , Flowers and Trees , is made by *Disney*.

*1934* The 135 film cartridge was  introduced , making 35mm easy to use.

*1936* Introduction by IHAGEE of the Ihagee Kine Exakta 1 , the first 35mm (single Lens reflex camera).

*1936* Development of Kodachrome multi-layered reversal color film.

*1937* Agfacolor –Nue reversal color film.

*1939* Agfacolor Negative-positive color material , the first modern “print” film . 

*1939* The view-Master  stereo viewer is introduced

*1942* Kodacolor , Kodak’s first “print” film.

*1947* Dennis Gabor invents (holography). 

*1947* Edgerton develops the Rapatronic  camera for the U.S  government .

*1948* The Hasselblad camera was introduced .

*1952* The 3-D film craze begins  and Leica M introduced.

*1957* First Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.

*1957* First digital image produced on a computer by Russell Kirsch at US national Bureau of Standards (now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST) 

*1959* Nikon F introduced.

*1959* AGFA introduces the first fully automatic camera , the optima. 

*1963* First Pentax Spotmatic SLR introduced and Kodak introduces the Instamatic .

*1973* Fairchild semiconductor releases the first large image forming (CCD) chip ; 100 rows and 100 columns .

*1975* Bryce Bayer of Kodak develops the Bayer filter mosaic pattern for (CCD) color image sensors.

*1986* Kodak  scientists invent the word’s first (megapixel sensor).

*2005* Agfaphoto files for bankruptcy. Production of Agfa brand consumer films ends.

*2006* Dalsa produces 111 megapixel  (CCD) sensor, the highest resolution at its time.

*2008* Polaroid announces it is discontinuing the production of all instant film products , citing the rise of digital imaging technology.

*2009* Kodak announces the discontinuance of Kodachrome film. 

  

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