History of photography and cameras

The first advertisement with a photograph is published in Philadelphia.

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

Panoramic camera, called the Sutton, is patented.

Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright law.

Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process, which means negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

Eastman Dry Plate Company is founded.

George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.

Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

First mass-marketed camera, called the Brownie, goes on sale.

General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.

First light meter with photoelectric cell is introduced.

Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.

Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.

Chester Carlson receives a patent for electric photography (xerography).

Edwin Land launches and markets the Polaroid camera.

Eastman Kodak introduces high-speed Tri-X film.

EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

Polaroid introduces the instant color film.

Photograph of the Earth is taken from the moon. The photograph, Earthrise, is considered one of the most influential environmental photographs ever taken.

Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.

Pioneers George Eastman and Edwin Land are inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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

Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder for capturing moving picture.

Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

Pixar introduces the digital imaging processor.

Eastman Kodak announces Photo Compact Disc as a digital image storage medium.

Kyocera Corporation introduces the VP-210 VisualPhone, the world's first mobile phone with built-in camera for recording videos and still photos.

The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).

The Daguerreotype Camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the world’s most expensive cameras.

The first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton.

Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.

George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885. His first �Kodak� box camera was very simple and very cheap.

First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie � was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s.

The Raisecamera (travel camera) was invented. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when it is folded made this photo camera the most desirable thing for landscape photographers.

Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute.

EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”.

Sony demonstrates the Sony Mavica – the world’s first digital electronic still camera. Digital photography and television images are related to the same technology, so this camera recorded images into a mini disk and then put them into a video reader. Images could be displayed to a television monitor or color printer.

Fuji introduced the disposable camera. The inventors also call this device “single-use cameras”.

Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was of a great use for photojournalists. It was a modified Nikon F-3 camera with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.

The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.

In 2013, Nokia released the camera phone equivalent of a mic drop, the Lumia 1020. This phone features a 41MP sensor, which was larger than any prosumer-level DSLR available. The 1020 also featured a Carl Zeiss lens, image stabilization, and PurView Pro technology, which enables lossless digital zoom.

Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.

Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.

First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.

Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype, an image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process, the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

The first 35mm still camera (also called �candid� camera ) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras.

The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony’s Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).

First 35mm still camera is developed