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Date
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Event
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1814
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A Frenchman
called Joseph Nicéphore Niépce obtained
the first ever photographic image with his “Camera Obscura”.
This image was taken by having the shutter left open for
eight hours ad faded shortly after.
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1837
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The French
artist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
took the first fixed image on his Daguerreotype. This image
did not fade and took less than thirty minutes of exposure.
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1841
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William
Henry Talbot patented the process of Calotype- which involves the first negative-positive printing
process making it possible to make multiple copies of a
picture.
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1843
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The first
advertisement using a photograph is made in Philadelphia
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1851
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The Collodion process
is invented by Frederick Scott Archer. This requires only
two or three seconds of sunlight exposure for the image
to be captured.
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1859
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The panoramic
camera is patented In Sutton.
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1871
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A man called
Richard Leach Maddox invents a gelatin dry plate silver
bromide process-negatives are no longer needed to be developed
immediately.
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1880
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Eastman
dry plate company is founded.
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1884
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Flexible,
paper based photographic film is invented by company “Eastman”.
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1888
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Eastman
has another invention, the Kodak roll film camera.
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1900
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The turn
of the century brought around the first mass marketed camera “the
Browning”.
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1913-1914
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The first
35mm still camera is developed
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1927
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Electricity
company General Electric invents the modern flash bulb
which enables the photograph to be brighter or taken in
dark areas and seen clearly in the finished picture.
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1935
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Eastman
Kodak starts selling Kodachrome film
on the market
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1941
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Eastman
Kodak introduces Kodacolour negative
film
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1948
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Edwin Land
markets his invention, the Polaroid camera.
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1954
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Eastman
Kodak develops hi-speed tri-x film.
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1960
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EG&G
produces a camera that can withstand extreme underwater
depths for the U.S. navy.
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1963
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Polaroid
releases instant colour film.
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1968
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The first
ever literally “out of this world” photograph
is taken. And we receive an image of our planet taken from
the moon.
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1973
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Polaroid
develops one step instant colour film,
shoot and print with one click.
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1978
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Konica invents
the point and shoot auto focus camera
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1980
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Sony publicly
gives a demonstration of their newest addition to the original
camera, the camcorder.
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1984
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Four years
later canon demonstrates their next big thing for many
years, an electronic still camera.
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1985
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Pixar releases a digital imaging processor.
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1990
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Eastman
Kodak develops the photo cd as
a digital image storing device.
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