History of photography

These are some points from the history of photography that i find interesting. 

Research into photography history

·         Ancient times: Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole

·         1816: Nicéphore Niépce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper

·         1826: Niépce creates a permanent image

·         1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.

·         1855: Beginning of stereoscopic era

·         1855-57: Direct positive images on glass (ambrotypes) and metal (tintypes or ferrotypes) popular in the US.

·         1880: George Eastman, age 24, sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, New York. First half-tone photograph appears in a daily newspaper, the New York Graphic.

·         1888: First Kodak camera, containing a 20-foot roll of paper, enough for 100 2.5-inch diameter circular pictures.

·         1889: Improved Kodak camera with roll of film instead of paper

·         1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France

·         1934: Fuji Photo Film founded. By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in addition to film.

·         1936: Development of Kodachrome, the first color multi-layered color film; development of Exakta, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera

·         1963: First color instant film developed by Polaroid; Instamatic released by Kodak; first purpose-built underwater introduced, the Nikonos

·         1975 Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still 

·         1992: Kodak introduces PhotoCD

·         2000: Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone