Photo History

So I would like to start you out with a little background on photography. Where it started, who was involved and how it evolved.  In 1727 Johann Schulze found that silver nitrate darkened when exposed to light. With that the camera obscura was born in the 1800's. This camera was set up with a little hole on one end which light was exposed and whatever was on the other side of that hole was projected upside down and "printed" onto the silver nitrate. These images quickly faded. 

Fast forwarding to the late 1800's, a new method of printing  on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and "developed" with warmed mercury. These were called "daguerreotypes". These were quickly taken over by a much easier process using glass and metal to print on. Called  "Wet Plate Collodion Photography", it was done by mixing chemicals and printing the images directly to the surface. Then moving forward a few more years a new process was developed. These  images were knows as "Ambrotypes" (glass) and "Tintypes" (metal). Most times, these were put in decorative frames/wallets because the edges were very sharp and would cut peoples hands.

As you can see, they are very similar. but each picture was done using a different method! SO moving forward, in 1861 the first color image was printed using three different black and white pictures and placing a different color filter on each one. In 1881 the first Kodak camera was created containing a twenty foot roll of photo paper. THEN in 1889 the Kodak camera was updated and came with film! This was the Kodak Brownie.

                                     

Kind of skipping ahead, in 1934 Fuji film was created. In 1938 they were making cameras, film and lenses.

                                        

In 1948, Polaroid established the first black and white instant film. In 1963 the came out with the first color instant film. 
                     


1975 Kodak changed the game by creating the first working digital camera!
                                          


1985 Minolta creates the world's first auto-focus SLR system and in 1990 Adobe releases Photoshop.

                               

Kodak DCS 100- 1991 
                                        

In 2000 Japan created the first camera phone, the J phone.
                                                             
                                 

2005 Canon releases the first SLR camera that was priced so consumers could buy it. The Canon EOS 5D was the beginning of many of the SLR/DSLR cameras we have today! 

                                                           



Sources: http://photo.net/history/timeline