I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY

I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY

In 1814 the first photographic image was made using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

In 1837 the first daguerreotype was made; it was an image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

On May 8-1840 Alexander Wolcott, received the first American patent for photography (US Patent No. 1582) for a Daguerreotype mirror camera, which did not have a lens. The camera was based on a concave reflecting mirror built by an associate.

In 1841 an Englishman, William Henry Talbot patented the Calotype process. The translucent calotype negative made it possible to produce as many positive prints as desired by simple contact printing, whereas the daguerreotype was an opaque direct positive that could only be reproduced by copying it with a camera.

 In 1843 the first advertisement with a photograph was published in Philadelphia.

In 1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process so that images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.

In 1859 the Panoramic camera, called the Sutton, was patented. Sutton's Patent Panoramic Water Lens, was patented (patent no. 2193) in England on September 28-1859. Two lenses with extremely concentric curvatures enclose a hollow space which had been filled with crystal clear water.

In 1865, photographs and photographic negatives were added to protected works under copyright law.

In 1871, Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process, which meant that negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

1880, the Eastman Dry Plate Company and Film Company was founded. The company’s first camera, the Kodak, was sold in 1888 and consisted of a box camera with 100 exposures. In 1884, the company  

invented flexible, paper-based photographic film and in 1888 patented the Kodak roll-film camera.

In 1898, Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patented a celluloid photographic film.

In 1900, the first mass-marketed camera, called the Brownie, went on sale.

In 1913/1914, the first 35mm still camera was developed.

In 1927, General Electric invented the modern flash bulb.

In 1932, the first light meter with photoelectric cell was introduced.

In 1935, Eastman Kodak marketed Kodachrome film and in 1941, Eastman Kodak introduced Kodacolor negative film.

On October 6-1942, the Patent Office issued Chester Carlson a patent for electrophotography (xerography.)   

In 1948, Edwin Land launched and marketed the Polaroid camera.

In 1954, Eastman Kodak introduced high-speed Tri-X film.

In 1960, EG&G developed extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

1963

Polaroid introduced the instant color film.

In 1968, a photograph of the Earth was taken from the moon. The photograph, Earthrise, is considered one of the most influential environmental photographs ever taken.

In 1973, Polaroid introduced one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.

In 1978, Konica introduced the first point-and-shoot autofocus camera.

In 1980, Sony demonstrated the first consumer camcorder for capturing moving picture.

In 1984, Canon demonstrated the first digital electronic still camera.

In 1985, Pixar introduced the digital imaging processor.

In 1990, Eastman Kodak announced the Photo Compact Disc as a digital image storage medium.

In 1999, Kyocera Corporation introduced the VP-210 VisualPhone, the world's first mobile phone with built-in camera for recording videos and still photos.