Editing Timeline of photography technology

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The following list comprises significant milestones in the development of photography technology.

== Timeline ==
[[File:Untitled (point de vue), Niépce 1827 — HRC 2020 (cropped).jpg | thumb | right | The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 or 1827<ref name="UTexas">{{cite web |title=The First Photograph – Heliography |url=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/heliography.html |quote=from Helmut Gernsheim's article, "The 150th Anniversary of Photography," History of Photography, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1977: ... In 1822, Niépce coated a glass plate ... The sunlight passing through ... This first permanent example ... was destroyed ... some years later. |access-date=2009-09-29 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006135924/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/heliography.html |archive-date=2009-10-06}}</ref>]]
[[File:Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre.jpg|thumb|right|''[[View of the Boulevard du Temple]]'', first photograph including a person (on pavement at lower left), by Daguerre, 1838]]
[[File:Tartan Ribbon.jpg|thumb|right|First durable color photograph, 1861<!--no "by Maxwell" here, please: the process was unquestionably Maxwell's creation, but the photographs were taken by Thomas Sutton and including a demonstration of the very imperfect results in the lecture may have been Sutton's preference rather than Maxwell's-->]]
[[File:Duhauron1877.jpg|thumb|An 1877 photographic color print on paper by Louis Ducos du Hauron. The irregular edges of the superimposed cyan, red and yellow components can be seen.]]
[[File:Muybridge horse gallop animated 2.gif|thumb|right|[[Eadweard Muybridge|Muybridge]] used [[high-speed photography]] to make the first animated image sequences photographed in real-time (1878–1887)]]

=== Prior to the 19th century ===
* 1614 – In ''Septem planetarum terrestrium spagirica recensio,''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sala |first=Angelus |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34709352 |title=Septem planetarum terrestrium spagirica recensio: qua perspicue declaratur ratio nominis hermetici, analogia metallorum cum microcosmo, eorum praeparatio vera & unica, proprietates, & usus medicinales |date=1614 |publisher=Apud Wilhelmum Ianssonium |location=Amsterodami |language=Latin |oclc=34709352 |access-date=2023-03-12 |archive-date=2023-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702164333/https://www.worldcat.org/title/34709352 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Angelo Sala]] reported that "Si lapidem lunearem pulveratum ad solem exponas instar atramenti niggerimus" (When you expose powdered silver nitrate to sunlight, it turns black as ink), and also its effect on paper; silver nitrate wrapped in paper for a year turned black.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |author1=Josef Maria Eder |title=History of photographyPaperback |publication-date=1978 |year=1978 |pages=22–23|publisher=New York Dover Publications |isbn=978-0-486-23586-8}}</ref> 
* {{c.|1717}}<ref>This date is  misreported as 1725 or 1727, an error deriving from the belief that a 1727 publication of Schulze's account of experiments he says he undertook about two years earlier is the original source. In fact, it is a reprint of a 1719 publication and the date of the experiments is therefore circa 1717. The dated contents page of the true original can be seen [http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd18/content/pageview/4921254 here] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221153904/http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd18/content/pageview/4921254 |date=2015-02-21}} (retrieved 2015-02-21)</ref> – [[Johann Heinrich Schulze]] makes fleeting sun prints of words by using [[stencil]]s, sunlight, and a bottled mixture of [[chalk]] and [[silver nitrate]] in [[nitric acid]], simply as an interesting way to demonstrate that the substance inside the bottle darkens where it is exposed to light.
* c. 1794 – [[Elizabeth Fulhame]] invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction. She describes catalysis as a process at length in her 1794 book ''An Essay On Combustion with a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting, wherein the Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are Proved Erroneous''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/fulhame/combustion/combustion.html | title=An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224150842/http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/fulhame/combustion/combustion.html |archive-date=2021-02-24 }} later publication in America</ref>

===19th century===
* c. 1800 – [[Thomas Wedgwood (photographer)|Thomas Wedgwood]] conceives of making permanent pictures of [[camera obscura|camera]] images by using a durable surface coated with a light-sensitive chemical. He succeeds only in producing [[silhouette]]s and other shadow images, and is unable to make them permanent.
* 1810 – [[Thomas Johann Seebeck]] records near-true colours of the solar spectrum on paper sensitised with [[silver chloride]], though is unable to preserve the results, and his report is included in [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]'s ''[[Theory of Colours]]'' (Zur Farbenlehre).
* 1816 – [[Nicéphore Niépce]] succeeds in making [[negative (photography)|negative]] photographs of camera images on paper coated with [[silver chloride]], but cannot adequately "fix" them to stop them from darkening all over when exposed to light for viewing.<ref>[http://www.niepce.org/pagus/invus1.html Niépce House Museum: History of Photography, part 1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308174022/http://www.niepce.org/pagus/invus1.html |date=2014-03-08}}. Retrieved 26 May 2013.</ref>
* 1822 – Niépce abandons [[silver halide]] photography as hopelessly impermanent and tries using thin coatings of [[Bitumen of Judea]] on metal and glass. He creates the first fixed, permanent photograph, a copy of an engraving of [[Pope Pius VII]], by [[contact print]]ing in direct sunlight without a camera or lens. It is later destroyed; the earliest surviving example of his [[heliography|"heliographic process"]] is from 1825.<ref name="UTexas" />
* 1824 – Niépce makes the first durable, light-fast camera photograph, similar to his surviving 1826–1827 photograph on pewter but created on the surface of a [[Lithographic limestone|lithographic stone]].<ref>[http://www.niepce.org/pagus/invus3.html Niépce House Museum: History of Photography, part 3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316220551/http://www.niepce.org/pagus/invus3.html |date=2014-03-16}}. Retrieved 26 May 2013.</ref> It is destroyed in the course of subsequent experiments.
* 1826 – [[Mary Somerville]], a Scottish science writer and polymath conducted a series of experiments to explore the relationship between light and magnetism and she published her first paper, "The magnetic properties of the violet rays of the solar spectrum", in the ''[[Proceedings of the Royal Society]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Somerville/|title=Mary Somerville - Biography|access-date=2020-05-30|archive-date=2020-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701084112/https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Somerville/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1826 or 1827 – Niépce makes what is now [[View from the Window at Le Gras|the earliest surviving photograph from nature]],<ref name="UTexas" /> a landscape. It requires an exposure in the camera that lasts at least eight hours and probably several days.
* 1834 – [[Hércules Florence]], a French-Brazilian painter and the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, coined the word ''photographia'' for his technique, at least four years before [[John Herschel]] coined the English word ''photography'', producing light-fast, permanent images of nature and "real world scenes".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hercule Florence |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/instituto-hercule-florence |access-date=April 17, 2024 |website=Google Arts and Culture |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Hercule Florence: El descubrimiento de la fotografía en Brasil | author = Boris Kossoy | publisher = Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia | isbn = 968-03-0020-X | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wCoQAAAACAAJ | access-date = 2016-11-04 | archive-date = 2023-07-02 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230702164331/https://books.google.com/books?id=wCoQAAAACAAJ | url-status = live }}</ref>
* 1835 – [[Henry Fox Talbot]] produces durable silver chloride camera negatives on paper and conceives the two-step negative-positive procedure used in most non-electronic photography up to the present.<ref name="Schaaf">[http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/talbot/biography.html "WHF Talbot: Biography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721213550/http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/talbot/biography.html |date=2011-07-21}}, a concise account by widely acknowledged and extensively published Talbot expert Larry J. Schaaf. Retrieved 10 September 2014.</ref>
* 1839
** [[Louis Daguerre]] publicly introduces his [[daguerreotype]] process, which produces highly detailed permanent photographs on silver-plated sheets of copper. At first, it requires several minutes of exposure in the camera, but later improvements reduce the exposure time to a few seconds. Photography suddenly enters the public consciousness and Daguerre's process is soon being used worldwide.
** Talbot publicly introduces the paper-based process he worked out in 1835, calling it "photogenic drawing", but it requires much longer exposures than the daguerreotype and the results are not as clear and detailed.<ref name="Schaaf" />
** [[Hippolyte Bayard]] presents the first public exhibition of photographs. He claims to have invented a photographic process prior to Daguerre and Talbot.
** [[Sarah Anne Bright]] creates a series of [[photogram]]s, six of which are known to still exist. These are the earliest surviving photographic images created by a woman.
** John Herschel introduces hyposulfite of soda (now known as [[sodium thiosulfate]] but still nicknamed "hypo") as a highly effective [[photographic fixer|fixer]] for all silver-based processes. He also makes the first glass negative.
** [[Mungo Ponton]] a Scottish inventor, discovered that dichromates are light sensitive leading to [[Gum bichromate]] printing another permanent form of photography and additions for improvements in others including contrast increase with cyanotype, and salt printing.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.christopherjames-studio.com/GumBichromate3rdEdBookOfAltPro.pdf | title=The gum bichromate process | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024005421/http://www.christopherjames-studio.com/GumBichromate3rdEdBookOfAltPro.pdf | archive-date=2019-10-24 }}</ref>
* 1841 – Talbot introduces his patented [[calotype]] (or "talbotype") paper negative process, an improved version of his earlier process that greatly reduces the required exposure time.<ref name="Schaaf" />
* 1843 – [[Anna Atkins]] Publishes first photobook. British Algae.
* 1845 – [[Francis Ronalds]] invents the first successful camera for [[photography#Science and forensics|continuous recording]] of the variations in [[meteorology|meteorological]] and [[earth's magnetic field|geomagnetic]] parameters over time<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph|last=Ronalds|first=B.F.|publisher=Imperial College Press|year=2016|isbn=978-1-78326-917-4|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ronalds|first=B.F.|date=2016|title=The Beginnings of Continuous Scientific Recording using Photography: Sir Francis Ronalds' Contribution|url=http://www.eshph.org/blog/2016/04/19/1642/|journal=European Society for the History of Photography|access-date=2 June 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613031339/http://www.eshph.org/blog/2016/04/19/1642/|archive-date=13 June 2016}}</ref>
* 1848 – [[A. E. Becquerel|Edmond Becquerel]] makes the first full-color photographs, but they are only laboratory curiosities: an exposure lasting hours or days is required and the colors are so light-sensitive that they sometimes fade right before the viewer's eyes while being examined.
* 1851 – Introduction of the [[collodion process]] by [[Frederick Scott Archer]], used for making [[photographic plate|glass negatives]], [[ambrotype]]s and [[tintype]]s.
* 1850s – [[Combination printing]] was introduced, probably first suggested by Hippolyte Bayard when he thought of using a separate negative of a properly exposed sky in combination with a proper negative of the landscape or monument documented for the [[Missions Héliographiques]] that started in 1851.
* 1854
** ''[[British Journal of Photography]]'' (initially established as the Liverpool Photographic Journal) first issue was published on 14 January 1854
** [[André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri]] credited with introduction of the ''[[carte de visite]]'' (English: ''visiting card'' or ''calling card'') format for [[portrait photography|portraiture]]. Disdéri uses a camera with multiple lenses that can photograph eight different poses on one large negative. After printing on [[albumen paper]], the images are cut apart and glued to calling-card-size mounts.
* 1857 – In America David Acheson Woodward patents the [[solar camera]], derived from the earlier solar microscope,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/499055803|title=Focal encyclopedia of photography : digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science.|date=2007|publisher=Focal| isbn=978-0-08-047784-8|edition=4th|location=Amsterdam|oclc=499055803|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2023-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702164339/https://www.worldcat.org/title/499055803|url-status=live}}</ref> using sunlight to make enlargements from glass negatives<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hannavy|first=John|editor1-first=John|editor1-last=Hannavy|date=2013-12-16|title=Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203941782|doi=10.4324/9780203941782|isbn=9780203941782|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2023-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702164336/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203941782/encyclopedia-nineteenth-century-photography-john-hannavy|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1861 – [[James Clerk Maxwell]] presents a projected [[additive color]] image of a multicolored ribbon, the first demonstration of color photography by the three-color method he suggested in 1855. It uses three separate black-and-white photographs taken and projected through red, green and blue color [[filter (optics)|filters]]. The projected image is temporary but the set of three "color separations" is the first durable color photograph.
* 1868 – [[Louis Ducos du Hauron]] patents his numerous ideas for color photography based on the three-color principle, including procedures for making [[subtractive color]] prints on paper. They are published the following year. Their implementation is not technologically practical at that time, but they anticipate most of the color processes that are later introduced.
* 1871 – The [[Photographic film|gelatin emulsion]] is invented by [[Richard Maddox]].
* 1873 – [[Hermann Wilhelm Vogel]] discovers dye sensitization, allowing the blue-sensitive but otherwise color-blind photographic [[photographic emulsion|emulsions]] then in use to be made sensitive to green, yellow and red light. Technical problems delay the first use of dye sensitization in a commercial product until the mid-1880s; fully [[panchromatic]] emulsions are not in common use until the mid-20th century.
* 1876 – [[Ferdinand Hurter|Hurter]] & [[Vero Charles Driffield|Driffield]] begin systematic evaluation of sensitivity characteristics of photographic emulsions — the science of [[sensitometry]].
* 1878
** Heat ripening of gelatin emulsions is discovered. This greatly increases sensitivity and makes possible very short "snapshot" exposures.
** [[Eadweard Muybridge]] uses a row of cameras with trip-wires to make a high-speed photographic analysis of a galloping horse. Each picture is taken in less than the two-thousandth part of a second, and they are taken in sufficiently rapid sequence (about 25 per second) that they constitute a brief real-time "movie" that can be viewed by using a device such as a [[zoetrope]], a photographic "first".
* 1887 – [[Celluloid]] [[film base]] introduced.
* 1888
** The [[Kodak]] n°1 box camera, the first easy-to-use camera, is introduced with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest."
** [[Louis Le Prince]] makes [[Roundhay Garden Scene]]. It is believed to be the first-ever motion picture on film.
* 1889 – The first commercially available transparent celluloid roll film is introduced by the Eastman Company,<ref name="Kodak" /> later renamed the [[Eastman Kodak]] Company and commonly known as Kodak.
* 1891
** [[Gabriel Lippmann]] announces a "method of reproducing colors photographically based on the phenomenon of interference".
** [[William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]] develops the "[[kinetoscope|kinetoscopic]]" motion picture camera while working for [[Thomas Edison]].
* 1895 – [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]] invent the [[cinématographe]].
* 1898 – Kodak introduces the [[folding camera|Folding]] Pocket Kodak.

=== 20th century ===
* 1900 – Kodak introduces their first [[Brownie (camera)|Brownie]], a very inexpensive user-reloadable point-and-shoot box camera.
* 1901 – Kodak introduces the [[120 film]] format.
* 1902 – [[Arthur Korn]] devises practical [[telephotography]] technology (reduction of photographic images to signals that can be transmitted by wire to other locations).''Wire-Photos'' are in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted to other continents by 1922.
* 1903 – The Lumière brothers invent [[Color photography|color cameras]].
* 1907 – The [[Autochrome Lumière|Autochrome]] plate is introduced. It becomes the first commercially successful color photography product.
* 1908 – [[Kinemacolor]], a two-color process known as the first commercial "natural color" system for movies, is introduced.
* 1909<!--Kodak's mainline chronology says they "produced" the first "commercially practical" safety film in 1908, their motion picture film chronology says they "announced" it in 1909 and that it was first "offered for sale in 22mm" (the oddball Edison show-at-home format) in 1910--> – Kodak announces a 35&nbsp;mm "safety" motion picture film on an acetate base as an alternative to the highly flammable nitrate base.<ref name="Kodak">[http://motion.kodak.com/motion/About/Chronology_Of_Film/index.htm Kodak Chronology of Motion Picture Films 1889 to 1939] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015060242/http://motion.kodak.com/motion/About/Chronology_Of_Film/index.htm |date=2013-10-15}}. Retrieved 2 June 2013.</ref> The motion picture industry discontinues its use after 1911 due to technical imperfections.
* 1912
** [[Vest Pocket Kodak]] using [[127 film]].
** Thomas Edison introduces a short-lived 22&nbsp;mm home motion picture format using acetate "safety" film manufactured by Kodak.<ref name="Kodak" />
* 1913 – Kodak makes 35&nbsp;mm [[panchromatic film|panchromatic]] motion picture film available on a bulk special order basis.
* 1914
** Kodak introduces the [[Autographic film]] system.
** ''[[The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914 film)|The World, the Flesh and the Devil]]'', made in Kinemacolor, is the first dramatic feature film in color released.
* 1922 – Kodak makes 35&nbsp;mm panchromatic motion picture film available as a regular stock.<ref name="Kodak" />
* 1923
** The [[16 mm|16&nbsp;mm]] amateur motion picture format is introduced by Kodak. Their [[Cine-Kodak]] camera uses [[reversal film]] and all 16&nbsp;mm is on an acetate (safety) base.<ref name="Kodak" />
** [[Harold Edgerton]] invents the [[xenon flash lamp]] for [[strobe photography]].
* 1925 – The [[Leica Camera|Leica]] introduces the [[35mm format film|35&nbsp;mm]] format to still photography.
* 1926 – Kodak introduces its 35&nbsp;mm Motion Picture Duplicating Film for duplicate negatives. Previously, motion picture studios used a second camera alongside the primary camera to create a duplicate negative.
* 1932
** "[[Flowers and Trees]]", the first full-color cartoon, is made in [[Technicolor]] by [[Disney]].
** Kodak introduces the first [[8 mm film|8&nbsp;mm]] amateur motion picture film, cameras, and projectors.<ref name="Kodak" />
* 1934 – The [[135 film]] cartridge is introduced, making 35&nbsp;mm easy to use for photography.
* 1935
** ''[[Becky Sharp (film)|Becky Sharp]]'', the first feature film made in the full-colour "three-strip" version of Technicolor, is released.
** Introduction of [[Kodachrome]] multi-layered color reversal film (16&nbsp;mm only; 8&nbsp;mm and 35&nbsp;mm follow in 1936, sheet film in 1938).<ref name="Kodak" />
* 1936
** Introduction by IHAGEE of the Ihagee Kine [[Exakta]] 1, the first 35&nbsp;mm SLR ([[Single Lens Reflex]]) camera.
** [[Agfacolor]] Neu (English: New Agfacolor) color reversal film for home movies and slides.
* 1939
** Agfacolor negative and positive 35&nbsp;mm color film stock for professional motion picture use (not for making paper prints).
** The [[View-Master]] 3-D viewer and its "reels" of seven small [[stereoscopy|stereoscopic]] image pairs on Kodachrome film are introduced.
* 1942 – [[Kodacolor]], the first color film that yields negatives for making [[chromogenic]] color prints on paper. Roll films for [[Snapshot (photography)|snapshot]] cameras only, 35&nbsp;mm not available until 1958.
* 1947
** [[Dennis Gabor]] invents [[holography]].
** Harold Edgerton develops the [[Rapatronic camera]] for the U.S. government.
* 1948
** The [[Hasselblad]] camera is introduced.
** [[Edwin H. Land]] introduces the first [[Polaroid Corporation|Polaroid]] [[instant camera]].
* 1949 – The [[Contax#Dresden-built Contax SLR Models|Contax S]] camera is introduced, the first 35&nbsp;mm [[Single-lens reflex camera|SLR]] camera with a [[pentaprism]] eye-level viewfinder.
* 1952 – ''[[Bwana Devil]]'', a low-budget [[Polarized 3D system|polarized 3-D]] film, premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest in 1953 and fades away during 1954.
* 1954 – [[Leica M3|Leica M]] Introduced
[[File:NBSFirstScanImageRestored.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Photograph scanned into a digital computer, 1957]]
* 1956 - The [[Chemigram]] was defined by the belgian artist [[Pierre Cordier]].
* 1957
** First [[Asahi Pentax]] SLR introduced.
** First digital computer acquisition of scanned photographs, by [[Russell Kirsch]] et al. at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology|NIST]]).<ref>{{Citation |title= Earliest Image Processing |url=http://museum.nist.gov/panels/seac/EARLIEST.HTM |publisher= [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] |last= Kirsch |first= Russell A. |work= NISTS Museum; SEAC and the Start of Image Processing at the National Bureau of Standards |url-status= dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719103629/http://museum.nist.gov/panels/seac/EARLIEST.HTM |archive-date= 2014-07-19}}</ref>
* 1959
** [[Nikon F]] introduced.
** [[Agfa-Gevaert|AGFA]] introduces the first fully automatic camera, the ''[[Agfa Optima 1a|Optima]]''.
* 1963 – Kodak introduces the [[Instamatic]].
* 1964
** First [[Pentax Spotmatic]] SLR introduced.
** [[Canon Inc.|Canon]] introduces the [[Canon FL lens mount]] with the [[Canon FX]]<ref>{{cite web |title=FX |url=https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/film49.html |website=Canon Camera Museum |publisher=Canon, Inc |access-date=19 October 2020 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020042404/https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/film49.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1967 – First MOS 10 by 10 active pixel array shown by Noble<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pjwn.co.uk|title=Peter J.W. Noble, inventor of the image sensor|website=www.pjwn.co.uk|access-date=3 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040354/http://www.pjwn.co.uk/|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>
* 1972 – Integrated Photomatrix (Noble) demonstrates for 64 by 64 MOS active pixel array
* 1973 – [[Fairchild Semiconductor]] releases the first large image forming [[Charge-coupled device|CCD]] [[Microprocessor|chip]]: 100 rows and 100 columns of [[pixel]]s.

[[File:Josef H Neumann- Gustav I (1976).jpg|thumb|Josef H. Neumann: Chemogram ''Gustav I'' (C)1974]]
* 1974 – [[Josef H. Neumann]] created the first [[Chemogram]]s combining the disciplines painting and photography within the fotographic layer for the first time.
* 1975 – Bryce Bayer of Kodak develops the [[Bayer filter]] mosaic pattern for CCD color image sensors.
* 1976 – [[Steadicam]] becomes available.
* 1979 – The [[NHK]] invents [[HDTV|HD cameras]].
* 1984 – Kerns H. Powers invents the [[16:9 aspect ratio]].
* 1986 – Kodak scientists invent the world's first megapixel sensor.
* 1987
** [[Canon Inc.|Canon]] releases the first camera for its fully electronic autofocus [[Canon EF lens mount|EF lens mount]], the EOS 650<ref name="CCM01">{{cite web |title=Developers Look Back on the History of the EOS System – Part 1 |url=https://global.canon/en/c-museum/history/eos30th-1.html |website=Canon Camera Museum |publisher=Canon, Inc |access-date=19 October 2020 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020040603/https://global.canon/en/c-museum/history/eos30th-1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Photoshop]]  developed by [[Thomas Knoll|Thomas]] and [[John Knoll]]
* 1990 — Adobe ''Photoshop'' 1.0 released on February 19, for [[Classic Mac OS|Macintosh]] exclusively.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crisherentertainment.com/photoshop-born-two-brothers/ |title=Photoshop: Born from Two Brothers |publisher=CrisherEntertainment.com |date=February 28, 2013 |access-date=October 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701155932/http://www.crisherentertainment.com/photoshop-born-two-brothers/ |archive-date=July 1, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name=About>{{cite web|title=Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Feb. 1990 - 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop|url=http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/ig/20-Years-of-Photoshop/Adobe-Photoshop-1-0.htm|work=Graphics Software|publisher=About.com|access-date=August 13, 2013|archive-date=April 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426212450/http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/ig/20-Years-of-Photoshop/Adobe-Photoshop-1-0.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* 1992 – [[Photo CD]] created by Kodak.<ref name="Cornell">{{cite web |author=Cornell University Library |author-link=Cornell University Library |title=Digital Preservation and Technology Timeline |work=Digital Preservation Management |url=http://www.dpworkshop.org/dpm-eng/timeline/viewall.html |year=2003 |access-date=10 July 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806054331/http://www.dpworkshop.org/dpm-eng/timeline/viewall.html |archive-date=2015-08-06}}</ref>
* 1993–95 – The [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] develops devices using CMOS or [[active pixel sensor]]s.
* 1994 – [[Nikon]] introduces the first [[Image stabilization|optical-stabilized]] lens.
* 1995 – "[[Kodak DC Series|Kodak DC40]] and the [[Apple QuickTake]] 100 become the first [[digital cameras]] marketed for consumers."<ref name="Cornell" />
* 1996 – Eastman Kodak, [[FujiFilm]], [[AgfaPhoto]], and [[Konica]] introduce the [[Advanced Photo System]] (APS).
* 1997 – first known publicly shared picture via a cell phone, by [[Philippe Kahn]].

=== 21st century onwards ===
* 2000 – [[J-SH04]] introduced by [[J-Phone]], the first commercially available mobile phone with a camera that can take and share still pictures.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.puremobile.com/cameraphones.asp |title=Camera Phones Origins |access-date=2011-12-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070908073503/http://www.puremobile.com/cameraphones.asp |archive-date=2007-09-08}}</ref>
* 2005 – AgfaPhoto files for bankruptcy. The production of Agfa brand consumer films ends.
* 2006 – [[Dalsa]] produces a 111 megapixel CCD sensor, the highest resolution at that time.
* 2008 – Polaroid announces it is discontinuing the production of all instant film products, citing the rise of digital imaging technology.
* 2009
** Kodak announces the discontinuance of Kodachrome film.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hsu |first1=Tiffany |title=Kodachrome to be discontinued |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-23-fi-kodachrome23-story.html |access-date=19 October 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=23 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214235757/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-23-fi-kodachrome23-story.html |archive-date=14 February 2020 |quote=Eastman Kodak Co. is discontinuing the storied 74-year-old color film.}}</ref>
** FujiFilm launches world's first digital 3D camera with 3D printing capabilities.<ref>{{cite web|title=FujiFilm camera|url=http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9681962791/fujifilmw1|website=dpreview.com|publisher=dpreview|ref=dpreview|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909002907/http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9681962791/fujifilmw1|archive-date=2015-09-09}}</ref>
* 2011 – [[Lytro]] releases the first pocket-sized consumer [[light-field photography|light-field]] camera, capable of refocusing images after they are taken.
* 2018 – Kodak resumes the production of [[Ektachrome]] film.

== See also ==
* [[Timeline of historic inventions]]
* [[List of inventions named after people]]
* [[Computational photography]]
* {{sectionlink|Quadcopter|Photography}}

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.photohistorytimeline.com/ The Photo History Timeline Collection]
* [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/VQ_P1_1_EN.html In the eye of the camera] — Illustrated historical essay about early photography
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/biedermann/index.html Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging]
* [http://www.digicammuseum.com/en/ The Digital Camera Museum with accurate history section and many rare items] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216112914/http://www.digicammuseum.com/en/ |date=2017-02-16 }}
* [https://photoshootgoals.com/the-fascinating-timeline-of-photography-technology/ The Fascinating Timeline of Photography Technology]

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