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Timeline of the History of Photography 5TH Century B.C.-> Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. 4TH Century B.C.-> The Greek philosopher Aristotle discussed pinhole image formation in his work. 1021 A.D.-> The Invention of the camera Obscura is attributed to the Iraqi scientist Alhazen and described in his book of optics. 1644-1672-> Sir Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colours by refracting white light off a prism. 1685-> The vision of a box form of a Camera that was portable and small was envisioned by Johann Zahn, though it would be nearly 150 years before technology was able to bring his vision to life. 1717-> Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.1816-> Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce constructed a wood camera fitted with a microscope lens. 1826-> Joseph Nicephore Niepce invented Heliograph, which he used to make the earliest known permanent photograph from nature, View from the Window at Le Gra. 1837-> In collaboration with Joseph Nicephore Niepce- Louis Daguerre invented the first practical photographic process, which was widely used in portraiture until the mid 1850s. 1837-> The first aerial photograph was taken by Gaspard Felix Tournachon of Place De L’ Etolie, Paris. It was shot from an altitude of 520 meters in a tethered balloon. 1861-> Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell produced the first colour photograph in 1861. 1871-> Dr. Richard Maddox discovered a method of using gelatin instead of glass as the plate material for the light-sensitive solution. 1844-1888-> George Eastman introduced celluloid based film in and the small portable easy-to-use box camera. 1878-> Eadweard Muybridge successfully captured the sequence of movement. It was this ground-breaking discovery and the technique that helped invented motion pictures. 1844-1924-> The camera went into production at the Leitz factory in Germany. It was called the Leica from the initials of “Leitz Camera.” 1926-> Underwater colour photography was born with a photograph taken of a hogfish, photographed off the Keys in the Gulf of Mexico. The photograph was taken by Dr. William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin. 1936-> The first 35mm SLR, the Ihagee Kine Exakta had a left-handed shutter release and rapid film wind thumb lever, folding waste level finder and 12 to 1/1000th second focal plane shutter. 1948-> An entirely new type of camera is introduced- the Polaroid Model 95. It was the world’s first viable instant-picture camera. The Model 95 used a patented chemical process to produce finished positive prints from the exposed negatives in under a minute. 1949-> A historic camera was made: the Contax S- the first pentaprism SLR for eye level viewing. 1952-> The first Japanese camera was built 35mm SLR. 1975-> The first ever digital camera was invented by Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak. 1993-> Unlike many other digital cameras that stored photos in “volatile” memory that required battery power to prevent file loss. A video graphics array resolution camera was the first to save image files in the kind of solid state flash memory. 1999-> The Kyocera VP-210 introduced a concept that we still use frequently today- phone photography! 2005-> The Canon EOS 5D had the popular new market category all to itself until 2008, when Nikon and Sony released their D700 and Alpha 900. 2008-> The Canon EOA Mark 11 is Introduced. 2008-> When Panasonic took the mirror and prism assembly out of a DSLR and replaced them with an electronic viewfinder, the resulting camera, the Lumix G1, became the world’s first Compact System Camera. 2012-> The Nikon D800 comes to the market with an unprecedented 36-million-pixel full frame sensor. 2016-> The Canon 5d Mark IV is released as a whopping 30.1 megapixels full frame digital single lens reflex with the ability to shoot videos in 4K. ................
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