the history of photography timeline
1500: First Camera Obscura was invented by Alhazen
1839:The Daguerroetype Camera was announced by the french Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the worlds most expensive camera.
1840: The first american patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
1859: The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton.
1861: Oliver Wendell invents stereoscope viewer.
1888: George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. George was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885.
1900: The raise camera (travel camera) was created. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when folded made this the most desirable thing for landscape photographers.
1913/1914: The first 13mm camera (also called candid camera) developed by Oskar Baranack of German Leica camera. Later it becomes the standard for all film cameras.
1948: Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera.
1960: EG&G invents the first underwater camera for the U.S navy
1978: Konica Invents the first point and shoot auto focus camera, Konica C35 AF.
1981: Sony introduce the 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 then put them into a video reader.
1986: Fuji introduced the disposable camera. The inventors also call this device “single-use cameras”.
1991: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.1994-1996: 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).
2000: In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.
2005: The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.
1839:The Daguerroetype Camera was announced by the french Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the worlds most expensive camera.
1840: The first american patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
1859: The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton.
1861: Oliver Wendell invents stereoscope viewer.
1888: George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. George was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885.
1900: The raise camera (travel camera) was created. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when folded made this the most desirable thing for landscape photographers.
1913/1914: The first 13mm camera (also called candid camera) developed by Oskar Baranack of German Leica camera. Later it becomes the standard for all film cameras.
1948: Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera.
1960: EG&G invents the first underwater camera for the U.S navy
1978: Konica Invents the first point and shoot auto focus camera, Konica C35 AF.
1981: Sony introduce the 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 then put them into a video reader.
1986: Fuji introduced the disposable camera. The inventors also call this device “single-use cameras”.
1991: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.1994-1996: 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).
2000: In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.
2005: The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.
Types of cameras
THE CAMERA OBSCURA projects an image on a white concave horizontal screen, like on a table, in the centre of completely darkened, black painted room or box. One tiny hole with a fitted lens projected coloured images and reflected everything that happens outside of the room onto the far wall inside of it. The image was always upside-down and not very clear but artists would use it to trace the image giving them an accurate sketch that could later be turned into a painting.
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THE DAGUERREOTYPE was one of the first forms of photography. The image was a fixed a permanent on a silver plate. The process of making these images was a chemical reaction between the silver, iodine and mercury vapour and then 'fixed' with a salt solution. The images were always clear but you could not produce more than one. Making these images were also very expensive because it was produced onto a silver plate.
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THE TALBOTYPE OR CALOTYPE was introduced in 1835, it was a new process of producing a negative on paper treated with silver. An exposed paper was placed over a second paper and exposed to bright light producing a positive image. It was able to produce multiple images unlike the daguerreotype but only downfall was that it wasn't as clear as the daguerreotype because of the photo transfer.
COLLODIAN WET-PALTE PROCESS introduced in 1851 by Fredrick Scott Archer. This was the best out of both techniques because it produced a clear image that could reproduce multiple times. The process began with a clean glass plate coated with colloidal, the plate had to be dipped in a silver nitrate solution, inserted into a camera and exposed. It had to be developed immediately and allowed to dry because if the plate dried before the process was complete, the emulsion would harden the photograph would be ruined Not the easiest technique but it worked well.
photographer biography's
LEWIS HINE was an American sociologist and photographer. He used his camera as a tool for social reform. His powerful photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.
MATHEW BRADY was one of the most celebrated 19th century american photographers, best known for he portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the civil war. He was credited with being the father of photojournalism. |
EDWARD MUYBRIDGE was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.