Events
1814
Joseph Niepce achieves the first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. The only issue was that the image took up to eight or nine hours of light exposure and later faded and became less clear.1837
Louis Daguerre's creates the first daguerreotype. It was an image that was fixed and did not fade and did not need hours but instead only needed thirty minutes of light exposure.1840
The first American patent is issued within the field of photography to Alexander Wolcott for his invention of the camera.5th-4th Centuries B.C.
Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.1664-1666
Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.1794
First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.1843
The first advertisement with a photograph is published in Philadelphia. Reportedly the photograph was used to advertise beer and this signaled the expansion of what photgrapy could be used for.1851
In 1851, Fredrick Scott Archer made the Collodion process so that image only 2 or 3 seconds of light exposure which greatly progressed the importance and accessibility of photography in the modern world.1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.1888
Edwin Herbert Land launched and marketed the first Polaroid camera. The Polaroid camera was a great invention to the photography industry it made printing picture easier.1960
In 1960 the company EG&G developed extreme depth underwater for the US Navy. This is important because will the US Navy will able to spy on other countries.The first 35mm camera goes into production created by Jules Richard’s called Homeos camera. It was sold between 1913 and 1920. However, very few Homeos cameras were produced during this time period and they never became very popular.The first 35mm camera widely available to the public was the American Tourist Multiple, which was released in 1913. It cost $175 at the time which was equivalent to $4000 in dollars today.Oskar Barnack, a development engineer for Leitz, first created his compact 35mm in 1913 but it became popular and skyrocketed in terms of production and use with thethe release of the Leica I in 1925.In 1936, the Argus A was introduced invented by Charles A. Verschoor. Verschoor traveled to Europe researching the idea of producing a camera (like the Leica) but made and sold for $10. The Model A camera was so popular, it sold 30,000 units by Montgomery Ward in the first week, becoming an incredibly accessible bile camera for consumers and widely known as the first amateur camera.Kodak released the first preloaded 35mm cassettes in 1934. Prior to the invention of preloaded cassettes, photographers had to load their own film into reusable cassettes in a dark room. Pre-loaded cassettes allowed photographers to switch rolls of film on-the-go.The first camera to have an instant-return mirror was Japan’s Asahi Pentax. The instant-return mirror allowed the user to accurately focus and frame the image using the viewfinder picture-taking easier and more convenient without having the mirror jump away from the optical path while the image was being taken.The first actual digital still camera was developed by Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. He built a prototype (US patent 4,131,919) from a movie camera lens, a handful of Motorola parts, 16 batteries and some newly invented Fairchild CCD electronic sensors.
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