Photography
Milestones in the development of photography.
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1800
Thomas Hedgewood places opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate. If exposed to strong light, the image would deteriorate rapidly. He called his results ‘sun pictures’.
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1834
Henry Fox Talbot makes permanent negative images with silver chloride soaked paper fixed with a salt solution. Contact printing these would create positive images.
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1877
Louis Ducos Du Hauron creates the first subtractive colour print. He used a pigment ink process.
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1900
The first camera for the mass market is introduced, the Kodak Brownie.
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1923
The first high quality 35mm camera is created by German company, Leitz. They marketed it as the Leica.
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1935
Kodachrome, the first multi-layered colour film is developed. This allows photographers to use colour in their work.
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1959
Nikon introduce their Nikon F. It’s bayonet mount lenses enable lenses to be change quickly.
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1963
Polaroid develop the first colour instant film.
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1970s
This decade sees the development of auto-exposure, zoom lenses, TTL, winders and motor drive in cameras.
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1981
Sony announce their revolutionary ‘Mavica’. The camera stored images on a standard floppy disk.
It was released 8 years later.
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1985
The first auto focus SLR system is marketed by Minolta.
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2000
By the turn of the century, film is rapidly being replaced by, the more practical, digital memory card.
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