Photography
Technology
ancient times: Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole.
1822 – Nicéphore Niépce takes the first fixed, permanent photograph using a non-lens contact-printing heliographic process.
1839 – Louis Daguerre patents the daguerrerotype.
1839 – William Fox Talbot invented the positive/negative process widely used in modern photography. He refers to this as photogenic drawing.
1841 – Talbot patents his process under the name calotype.
1851 – Introduction of the collodion process by Frederick Scott Archer, a sculptor in London. Wet plate collodion photography was much cheaper than daguerreotypes, the negative/positive process permitted unlimited reproductions.
1854 – André Adolphe-Eugene Disdéri develops carte-de-visite photography in Paris, leading to worldwide boom in portrait studios for the next decade.
1855 – Beginning of stereoscopic era.
1861 – The first color photograph, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon, is shown by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. A color photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter. The photos were turned into lantern slides and projected in registration with the same color filters. This is the color separation method.
1868 – Ducas de Hauron publishes a book proposing a variety of methods for subctrative color photography.
1871 – Richard Leach Maddox, an English doctor, invented the gelatin emulsion is invented proposes the use of an emulsion of gelatin and silver bromide on a glass plate, the dry plate process.
1876 – F. Hurter & V. C. Driffield begin systematic evaluation of sensitivity characteristics of photographic emulsions – science of sensitometry.
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 colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
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 Lumiére – Invented the cinématographe.
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 signals that can be transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
1907 – The Autochrome Lumiére is the first color photography process marketed.
1908 – Kinemacolor, a two-color process that is the first commercial “natural color” system for movies, is introduced.
1909 – Kodak introduces a 35 mm safety motion picture film on an acetate base as an alternative to the highly flammable nitrate base. The motion picture industry discontinues its use after 1911 due to technical imperfections.
1912 – Vest Pocket Kodak using 127 film.
1913 – Kodak makes 35 mm panchromatic motion picture film available on a bulk special order basis.
1914 – Kodak introduced the Autographic film system.
1914 – The World, the Flesh and the Devil, the first dramatic feature film in color (Kinemacolor), is released.
1920s – Yasujiro Niwa invented a device for phototelegraphic transmission through cable and later via radio.
1922 – Kodak makes 35 mm panchromatic motion picture film available as a regular stock.
1922 – Kodak introduces 16mm reversal film, on cellulose acetate (safety) base.
1923 – Doc Harold Edgerton invents the xenon flash lamp and strobe photography.
1925 – The Leica introduced the 35mm format to still photography.
1926 – Kodak introduces its 35 mm Motion Picture Duplicating Film for duplicate negatives. Previously, motion picture studios used a second camera alongside the primary camera to create a duplicate negative.
1932 – The first full-color movie, the cartoon Flowers and Trees , is made in Technicolor by Disney.
1932 – First 8mm amateur motion-picture film, cameras, and projectors are introduced by Kodak.
1934 – The 135 film cartridge was introduced, making 35mm easy to use.
1935 – Becky Sharp, the first feature film made in full color (Technicolor), is released
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.
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 Garbor invents holography.
1947 – Edgerton develops the Rapatronic camera for the U.S. government.
1948 – The Hasselblad camera was introduced.
1948 – Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant image camera.
1949 – The Contax S camera was introduced, the first 35mm SLR camera with pentaprism for eye-level viewing.
1952 – The 3-D Film craze begins.
1954 – Leica M introduced.
1957 – First Ashahi Pentex SLR introduced.
1957 – First digital image produced on a computer by Russell Kirsch at U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST).
1959 – Nikon F introduced introduced.
1959 – AGFA introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
1963 – Kodak introduces the Instamatic.
1964 – First Pentax Spotmatic SLR introduced.
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 world’s first megapixel sensor.
2005 – Agfa Photo 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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