photo history timeline by BRYNLEY HERGERT

Obscura camera 1800s

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 15:36:16 UTC

Approx. 25,000 years ago, then the early 1800s

1839 "Sun pictures"

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 15:42:14 UTC

found that he could make leave in prints with using silver salts, but needed to find out how to stop the silver salts from makings his prints go to darkness

Daguerreotype Camera

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 15:49:30 UTC

"mirrors with a memory"

A copper plate coated in silver iodide was placed behind the camera’s projection. This chemical compound is light-sensitive and fades in sunlight! If left for JUST the right amount of time, a clear image was formed if left too long, it faded to black.

Motion pictures

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 15:54:32 UTC

Leland Stanford

To settle a bet regarding the position of a galloping horse's legs, he sent for an acclaimed British photographer to take pictures of a horse in motion.

Kodak

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George Eastman Kodak 1888

developed the first half-tone photograph appeared in a daily newspaper

Kodak Brownie

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 16:00:42 UTC

He wanted everyone to be able to take photos and then developed the Kodak brownie in the 1900s costing $1.00

PANCHROMATIC FILM

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 16:02:52 UTC

PEOPLE HAD TRIED TO MAKE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS SINCE 1860.
IT WASN'T UNTIL 1906

Polaroid

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 16:04:49 UTC

Fiest instant color film developed in 1963

Disk Camera

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 16:05:43 UTC

THE FIRST VARIATION OF THE DIGITAL CAMERA WAS INTRODUCED IN 1983 BY KODAK

Kodak empire ended 2012

hergebry000 — 2024-10-30 16:12:19 UTC

They simply couldn’t keep

up with the ever-evolving nature of digital cameras