Photography Timeline-6

1978
Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
1985
Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.
1990
Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.

Photography Timeline-5

1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film.
1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon.
1973
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
1977
George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Photography Timeline-4

1900
First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.
1913/1914
First 35mm still camera developed.
1927
General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
1932
First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.
1935
Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
1941
Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
1942
Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).
1948
Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
1954
Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.
1960
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S.

Photography Timeline-3

1859
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
1865
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.
1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
1880
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
1898
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film