Timeline of photography technology

• 1825 - Nicéphore Niépce takes the first permanent photograph, an image of a boy leading a horse.
• 1835 - William Fox Talbot produces early permanent photographs through his own calotype process.
• 1839 - Louis Daguerre patents the daguerreotype.
• 1840 - William Fox Talbot invented the positive / negative process of photography used in all modern photography. He refers to this as photogenic drawing.
• 1851 - Introduction of the collodion process by Frederick Scott Archer
• 1871 - The gelatin emulsion is invented by Richard Maddox
• 1878 - Eadweard Muybridge made high-speed time lapse photographic demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system.
• 1887 - Celluloid film introduced.
• 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 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 data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
• 1907 - The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
• 1912 - Vest Pocket Kodak using 127 film.
• 1913 - Kinemacolor, the first commercial "natural color" system for movies is invented.
• 1914 - Kodak introduced the Autographic system.
• 1923 - Doc Harold Edgerton invents xenon flash lamp and strobe photography
• 1925 - The Leica introduced the 35mm format to still photography.
• 1934 - The 135 film cartridge was introduced, making 35mm easy to use.
• 1936 - Development of Kodachrome multi-layered color film.
• 1948 - The Hasselblad camera was introduced.
• 1948 - Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant image camera.
• 1957 - First Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.
• 1959 - Nikon F introduced.
• 1959 - Agfa introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
• 1963 - Kodak introduces the Instamatic
• 1965 - First Pentax Spotmatic SLR introduced.
• 1973 - Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip; 100 rows and 100 columns.

See also

• List of inventions
• List of inventions named after people

External links

• News story on Ananonva about auction of earliest photograph
• More about the earliest photograph
• In the eye of the camera — Illustrated historical essay about early photography