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4th Century BC – Aristotle made use of the principles of the camera obscura, in which an image is

projected through a small hole.

1826 - Joseph Nicéphore Nièpce takes the first preserved camera photograph

1839 - Daguerre and Niépce present the daguerreotype. Daguerreotype first became a means
of using photography commercially for portraits. This has proven to be a critical juncture in the history
of photograph.

- The first “selfie” ever was taken by American lamp-maker and photography enthusiast Robert
Cornelius using the daguerreotype process.

Ca. 1841 - William Henry Fox Talbot develops the negative-positive process

1850s - Alexis Gouin and Bruno Braquehais produced the predecessors to the classic pin-up
photograph.

1851 - Frederick Scott Archer introduced the collodion wet plate process, which produced a
negative image on a transparent glass plate.

- Although it was surpassed by the gelatin dry plate process in the late 1800s, the collodion
process was used for tintype portraits and in the printing industry well into the 1900s.

1889 - George Eastman created the roll of film, which made it possible to shoot multiple
pictures one after the other. (Kodak)

1925 - Oscar Barnack was developed the first Leica camera that has a small-format camera
with 35mm film.
1936 - Invention of color film (Kodak: Kodachrome, Agfa: Agfacolor)

1948 - Edwin H. Land introduced the first instant polaroid camera that was capable of
producing a fully developed photo using quick developing process.

1956 - Agfa released the first camera with aperture priority, where photographers no
longer needed to set the exposure time themselves. (Agfa Automatic 66)

1960s - A year where concept of digital cameras was existed

1963 - Canon presents the first camera prototype with autofocus.

1974 - Rollei produces the first fully automatic camera. Aperture, shutter speed, focus wherein
photographers no longer needed to set these themselves to create a usable image.

1975 - The camera Steven Sasson of Eastman Kodak built is generally considered the first self-
contained digital camera. Much like photography with film, advances in the technology have led to
explosive growth in the medium’s popularity.

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