Chronology of Photography

Chronological presentation of milestones from the history and development of photography .

Beginnings until the 18th century

Important developments : Camera obscura - Magic lantern - Development of the optical and chemical principles .

1717	Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687–1744) was the first to experimentally prove the sensitivity of silver nitrate to light .
1733	Chester Moor Hall (1703–1771) succeeds in building the first achromatic lens by combining a crown and flint glass lens .
1760	Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche took up the discoveries of Johann Heinrich Schulze in his novel Giphantie as a way of doing photography .
1770	The Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) made his first experiments with silver chloride and discovered its sensitivity to light . Scheele also finds out that blackened silver chloride becomes insoluble by ammonia ; he discovers - without being aware of it - a fixative that guarantees the permanence of the image.
1798	The brothers Claude (1763–1828) and Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833) carried out their first experiments on the chemical fixation of the images produced in the camera obscura .
1799	The chemistry student Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805) tried unsuccessfully to fix the images of the camera obscura with the help of light-sensitive materials .
1800	Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822) discovered infrared radiation .

19th century

Important developments : Basics of photo technology - invention of photography as understood today .

1802	Thomas Wedgwood invents a method of making contact copies without a camera ( photogram ) and publishes in London a “Report on a method of copying pictures on glass and making silhouettes by exposure to light on silver nitrate ” ( An account of a method of copying paintings upon glass and of making profiles by the agency of light upon nitrate of silver ). It is still not possible to freeze the images. It was not until three decades later that William Henry Fox Talbot discovered a suitable fixative.
1814	Humphry Davy discovers the third light-sensitive silver salt, silver iodide .
1816	Joseph Nicéphore Niépce takes the first paper photographs with self-made cameras from the window of his study.
1817	Carl Friedrich Gauß calculated a telescope lens that was later named after him.
1819	John Herschel discovered the property of sodium thiosulphate to dissolve silver salts.
1822	Joseph Nicéphore Niepce produced the first lightfast heliographic copy of a graphic sheet. This was done with the help of asphalt on glass.
1824	With a camera obscura, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce succeeds in creating the first durable image on an asphalt-coated zinc plate.
1826	Antoine-Jérôme Balard discovers the sensitivity of silver bromide to light . Joseph Nicéphore Niepce meets the owner of the spectacular diorama in Paris, Louis JM Daguerre .
1826	For eight hours, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce exposed the view from the window of his study on a tin plate made light-sensitive with asphalt. The result is a direct positive ; this is the first photostable photo that has been preserved.
1829	Niepce and Daguerre conclude a contract for the improvement and use of the photos obtained by photochemical means.
1835	The first negative process occurs when William Henry Fox Talbot photographs the inside of the window of his library. He uses a camera that is only 8 cm in size and equipped with a lens. He soaks his paper with silver nitrate and a salt solution. It was not until 1839 that Daguerre's method became known that Talbot continued his experiments.
1837	Daguerre discovered the suitability of a saline solution as a fixative.
1838	Charles Wheatstone describes the principle of stereoscopic vision .
1839	The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) announces that Niepce and Daguerre have succeeded in recording permanent images with the help of the camera obscura and are releasing the invention for use all over the world; Daguerre is celebrated as the inventor of photography ( daguerreotype ).
	However, similar methods were also found by other independently working inventors, e.g. B. Niepce, Talbot, and Hippolyte Bayard .
1840	The calotype is discovered by William Henry Fox Talbot. This is a positive salt paper copy from the paper negative, with which you can make any number of copies.
	Josef Maximilian Petzval calculates the first fast lens of 1: 3.7, f = 100 mm for portraits.
	Alexander S. Walcott opens his first portrait studio in the USA .
1841	The first European portrait studio is opened in London; the owner is Richard Beard (1801–1885). Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours exhibited 1,500 portraits in Paris in the first commercial studio in France.
	William Henry Fox Talbot has the first negative-positive process protected by a patent. For recording he uses iodized silver paper , which is developed in gallic acid and silver nitrate and fixed in sodium thiosulfate . It is made transparent by bathing it in wax and then copied to a positive on iodized silver paper.
1842	An early photographic report emerges when Hermann Biow and Carl Ferdinand Stelzner photograph the great fire in Hamburg.
1844- 1846	Talbot publishes the first book illustrated with photos, a so-called delivery work, which appeared in a total of 6 deliveries: The Pencil of Nature ; the total of 24 photographs, so-called calotypes (another name for this is talbotype ), were glued into the book by hand.
1847	The Englishman David Brewster invents the two-lens stereo camera.
1851	The description of the wet collodion process is published by Frederick Scott Archer . This remained the most important photographic process until 1880.
1854	André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri has a reduced format, which he describes as a carte de visite , registered as a patent. Since he was able to expose a plate several times from around 1859, he reduced the costs of production. These comparatively inexpensive photographs contributed greatly to the popularity and spread of photography.
1862	The French pigment printer Louis Ducos du Hauron publishes studies on color photographic processes .
1864	William B. Bolton (1848–1889) and BJ Sayce (1839–1895) developed the photographic collodion bromide drying plate and brought a ready-to-use emulsion of silver bromide for drying plates on the market, which was manufactured industrially from 1867 onwards. In Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Joseph W. Swan developed the coal copying process, which eliminated the shortcomings of Poitevin's copying process. He developed the pigment paper coated with a gelatin layer .
1865	Louis-Alphonse Poitevin makes his first attempts with colored pictures on paper; Treatise for the Paris Academy; Problems with the authenticity and durability of the colors.
1866	CA Steinheil & Sons invented objectives with the Aplanaten and John Henry Dallmeyer with the Rapid Rectlinear , which, due to their symmetrical design with four lenses, show practically no distortion .
1867	Cyprien Tessie Du Motay (1819–1880) and Charles R. Maréchal invent collotype printing (also known as light glue printing or photolithography or phototype ).
1868	Louis Ducos du Hauron achieved the breakthrough in color photography.
1871	Richard Leach Maddox published his invention of the gelatin dry plate for him a bromide - gelatin layer used. Compared to the collodion wet plate from 1851, it increases the sensitivity by a factor of 100 and achieves a sensitivity of approx. 5 ISO.
1873	Hermann Wilhelm Vogel , Professor of Photochemistry in Berlin, announces the orthochromatic sensitization of the negative material.
1877	Eadweard Muybridge takes the first series of photographs of moving motifs.
1878	Voigtländer presents the powerful Euryscop , which was based on calculations by Hans Sommer .
1879	The first industrially manufactured silver bromide gelatin dry plates were made by Johann Sachs in Berlin, Friedrich Wilde (1824–1868) in Görlitz and Carl Haack in Vienna.
1880	The first photos appear as illustrations in newspapers, for example a halftone halftone photo in a German newspaper.
1881	Hugo Adolf von Steinheil (1832-1893) presents the bright Antiplanet .
1886	The English military photographer Willoughby Wallace Hooper makes the most of the shorter exposure time in order to capture the faces of prisoners in the second before they are shot dead.
1888	The first roll film- on-paper camera, the Kodak, is launched. The American George Eastman's vision was to make photography much easier.
1894	The "Bosco-Automat" for ferrotypes was founded by George Grantham Bain (1865–1944). He calls it the “Montauk Photo Concern”.

20th century

1900 to 1924

Important developments : Invention of the 35mm camera (“Ur- Leica ”) by Oskar Barnack , new, high-speed lens calculations.

1907	The autochrome process , with which colored photographs could be made from one picture, was brought to market by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière .
	Ernemann company : Announcement of a panoramic round camera ( panorama camera ) with a field of view of 360 °.
1908	The production of the flame-retardant security film based on acetate cellulose is started by Agfa and Kodak .
1912	At the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Frank Eugene received the first teaching post for "artistic photography" established in Europe.
1913	Oskar Barnack designed the first prototype of the “Leica” with the new film format 24 × 36 mm ( 35mm negative ) .
1873-1916	Karl Schwarzschild - The Schwarzschild effect was named after him.
1922	Man Ray : Champs Délicieux (folder with rayograms )
1924	Press and report photography is being revolutionized in Europe by the Ermanox ; The camera is characterized by the brightest lens at the time (largest aperture 1: 2, later 1: 1.8), the Ernostar .

1925 to 1949

Key developments : First 6 × 6 - SLR with interchangeable magazines and system lenses ( Victor Hasselblad ); first twin-lens 6 × 6-reflex ( " Rolleiflex ") Messsucherkameras in small format ( Leica Mod. II and III, Zeiss Contax , first small SLR () Kine-exacta ), photoelectric selenium - exposure meter .

1925	The Leica is launched on the market in series.
	László Moholy-Nagy : painting, photography, film ( Bauhaus books )
1928	Albert Renger-Patzsch : The world is beautiful (illustrated book), representative of the New Objectivity .
	Founding of the Dephot photo agency .
	Karl Blossfeldt : Archetypes of Art (illustrated book).
1929	Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke , Braunschweig, present the Rolleiflex, the first two-lens 6 × 6 reflex camera.
	Exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund Film und Foto (FIFO) in Stuttgart.
	Werner Graeff (1901–1978): The new photographer is coming .
	Franz Roh and Jan Tschichold : foto-auge (illustrated book).
1931	Erich Salomon : Famous contemporaries in unguarded moments (illustrated book).
1932	Foundation of the group f / 64 around Edward Weston in the USA.
	35mm cameras with an integrated rangefinder for focusing the lens are made by Leitz and Zeiss-Ikon, so that the previous estimation of the distance to the subject is no longer necessary.
1933	The first 35mm film Agfacolor for color slides using the line screen process comes onto the market.
1935	Foundation of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the USA. The public relations work of the FSA founded the social documentary photography .
1936	First color slide films with chromogenic development in Germany (Agfacolor-Neu) and in the USA (Kodachrome).
	With the "Kine-Exakta", the Ihagee company brings the first 35mm SLR camera onto the market.
	Dissertation on the sociology of photography by Gisèle Freund at the Sorbonne in Paris.
	Publication of the first issue of LIFE magazine .
	Walter Benjamin : The work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility .
	Walter Zapp develops the original Minox .
1938	Edith Weyde (1901–1989) and André Rott invent the silver salt diffusion process as the basis for office copying processes and instant photography .
	Kodak : With the Super Kodak Six-20, the first camera with automatic exposure ( aperture control according to Joseph Mihàlyi ) comes onto the market in the USA . It cost US $ 225 and was probably only made 719 times because of the high price.
	The first Minox 8x11 is produced.
1941	Agfa presents the first color paper based on chromogenic development.
1942	Edwin Herbert Land applies for a patent for an instant photo process in the USA.
	The negative roll film Kodacolor and color paper for amateur photographers are launched in the USA. In Germany, the market launch of Agfacolor paper is prevented by the war.
1943	The first single-lens reflex prism viewfinder for viewing at eye level with a laterally correct, upright image and with a swing-back mirror was patented in Hungary on August 23, 1943 with the Duflex by Jenő Dulovits .
1947	Land's instant photo process " Polaroid " is presented to the world public after a series of detailed improvements.
	Foto-Spiegel is published monthly by Heering-Verlag. Editor Walther Heering , editor Bernd Lohse . First German photo magazine after the war and a forerunner of the photo magazine launched in 1949 .
1948	The holography is discovered by Dennis Gábor . But holography only became practical in 1960 with laser technology.
	Victor Hasselblad produces the first 6 × 6 single-lens reflex camera with interchangeable magazines and lenses; its metal focal plane shutter enables the shortest exposure time of 1/1600 s.

1950 to 1974

Important developments : Compensation of the objective lenses to reduce reflections, integration of the exposure measurement in the camera housing; Light measurement through the lens ( Through the Lens - TTL); first heyday of SLR photography; later the triumphant advance of zoom lenses , introduction of automatic exposure functions.

1950	Pierre Angénieux introduces the retrofocus - which enables a great development boost in the optical performance of wide-angle lenses .
	The first Photokina takes place in Cologne.
1954	Leitz : The Leica M3 is the first Leica with a bayonet lock for the lenses. This rangefinder camera sold extremely successfully and shaped the reportage photography of the 1950s and 1960s.
1955	Traveling exhibition The Family of Man , organized by Edward Steichen .
1956	Robert Frank : The Americans (illustrated book).
1957	Russell Kirsch from NIST ( National Institute of Standards and Technology ) takes the first digital photo .
	Nikon : The battery-powered motor connection, which was tested for the first time in the S2E prototype, has now become standard on the Nikon SP , using the S-36 camera motor with a speed of 3 images per second.
1959	Voigtländer : first mass-produced zoom lens for 35mm photo cameras (Voigtländer "Zoomar" 2.8 / 36-82mm).
	The Agfa Optima is the first camera to introduce automatic programming.
1960	The first color instant photo Polacolor is presented by Edwin Land.
	With the Calypso (camera) the first underwater camera comes onto the market.
1962	Publication of the silver dye bleaching process Cibachrome in Switzerland. NASA astronaut Walter Schirra moves NASA Hasselblad 500Cs to purchase for the Mercury program .
1963	Film loading is made easier by cartridge systems from Kodak and Agfa .
	Konica : The Konica Auto-Reflex is the first single-lens reflex camera with a focal plane shutter that has automatic exposure.
	The relatively less common Topcon RE Super is the first SLR with TTL - aperture metering at all.
1966	With the Rollei 35, Rollei presented the smallest 35mm camera in the world at the time, hardly bigger than a cigarette packet.
	Pentacon produces the first electronic shutter .
1967	Rollei Strobomatic 66: first electronic flash unit with automatic light metering.
	Leitz Noctilux 1.2 / 50mm: first series lens with aspherical lenses .
1968	Leitz: Leicaflex SL : first German reflex camera with TTL exposure measurement with the aperture open.
1969	With Praktica LLC, Pentacon presents the "Electric System" with the first electronic transmission of the aperture value for open aperture measurement for M42 mirror reflex cameras. A Hasselblad Data Camera (HDC) is used for the Apollo 11 moon landing .
1970	Color Photo : The first issue will appear at Photokina under the title “Color” ( zero number , IV / 70). The photo magazine appears monthly from 1971.
1971	Canon : first tilt-and-shift lens for perspective correction and focus expansion, 2.8 / 35 mm.
	The Konica Auto-Reflex T is the first SLR camera with automatic shutter .
	Peak of the spread of film-based reflex cameras: 800,000 cameras sold in Germany alone.
	As the former largest German camera manufacturer, Zeiss-Ikon and the Voigtländer brand, which has been part of the group since 1956, give up the production of photo cameras.
1972	Pentax ES: first SLR camera with aperture priority .
	Polaroid : Edwin Land presents the integral instant photo system SX-70 in 1972; Within ten seconds, five images could be exposed, which developed themselves within four minutes.
	Kodak : Introduction of the pocket format 13 × 17 mm on 16 mm wide film.
	Introduction of multi-layer coating for objective lenses to reduce stray light in optical imaging.
	Kodak introduced the C41 process as the standard method for negative film development.
	Linhof : Aero-Technika 4x5 with pneumatic vacuum system.
1973	Rollei : Presentation of the Rolleiflex SLX , the first fully electronic camera (market launch only in 1978).
	Vivitar Series I 3.5 / 70–210: Beginning of the triumph of zoom lenses ("rubber lenses").
1974	Fuji ST-901: first SLR camera with LEDs in the viewfinder.
	The Contax brand will be continued in a cooperation between Zeiss and Yashica .
	Ilford : Ilfospeed, enlarging paper with integrated processing chemicals.
	Kodak : Introduction of Super 8 film and cameras with soundtrack.
	Josef H. Neumann creates chemograms in which the disciplines of photography and painting are combined for the first time in the photographic layer.

1975 to 2000

Important developments : introduction of digital photography; Single-lens reflex cameras with autofocus ; Automatic exposure systems become standard; Control of numerous functions through microprocessor technology .

1975	Minox 35 EL: now the smallest 35 mm camera. It takes over the title "Smallest 35mm camera in the world" from the Rollei 35 . The Minox 35 is only slightly smaller, but significantly lighter than the Rollei 35 .
	The first 'digital camera' by Steven J. Sasson in 1975 - actually a still video camera system (SVC) in which the analog signal from the CCD sensor was stored internally digitized on a magnetic tape (outside the camera).
1976	Canon AE-1 : first 35mm single-lens reflex camera with microprocessor.
	Olympus OM-2: “autodynamic” exposure measurement on the curtain or the film surface also allows TTL flash measurement for the first time.
	Minolta : Minolta 110 Zoom SLR , a highlight of the pocket camera system.
	Schneider Variogon 5.6 / 140–280 mm: first zoom for Hasselblad cameras.
	Kodak : The E-6 development process replaces E-4 as the standard development process for slide films.
	Carl Zeiss Jena MKF 6 : multispectral camera in space with the “ Soyuz 22 ”.
1977	First high-speed color negative films on the market: Fujicolor II 400 and Kodacolor 400 (ISO 400/27 °).
	Minolta XD-7 : first SLR camera with multiple automatic (forerunner of program automatic).
	documenta 6 , Kassel , photography was shown for the first time at a documenta in its full range and right up to the present day (curators: Klaus Honnef and Evelyn Weiss in collaboration with Gabriele Honnef-Harling ).
1978	Market launch of the first fully electric camera: the Rolleiflex SLX for medium format.
	Konica FS-1: first KB-SLR with integrated film transport motor and the Konica C35 AF comes onto the market as the first autofocus viewfinder camera ready for series production.
	First highly sensitive slide film: Kodak Ektachrome 400 (ISO 400/27 °).
	Ilford : Multigrade materials with variable gradation .
	Fujifilm AZ-1: first SLR with zoom 43–75 mm as a standard lens.
	The Metz SCA system makes third-party flash units compatible with the new system functions of various manufacturers.
	Polaroid Polavision: an "instant cine film" system.
1979	Black and white photo papers with gradation conversion are gaining acceptance.
	The compound sensitivity specification ISO replaces ASA and DIN .
1980	Rollei Rolleiflex SL2000F : KB-SLR with exchangeable magazines, integrated motor and double viewfinder system.
	First chromogenic b / w films for the C41 process: The Ilford XP1 400 and Agfapan Vario-XL, the first black and white films to be developed in the color process.
1981	Minox : EC, smallest and lightest Minox camera (80x30x18 mm, 46 g).
	Pentax ME-F: First single-lens reflex camera with attachable autofocus lenses.
	Nikon FM2  : fastest shutter speed of 1/4000 s and flash sync speed of 1/200 s.
	Kodak : Introduction of the disc system (film carrier attached to a small diskette-like disc), which is discontinued a few years later due to insufficient market penetration.
	Tokina : 35–200 mm, "super zoom".
	Leitz / Kindermann : Introduction of the LKM system for slide projection.
	Sony Mavica : Presentation of the "Mavica" ( Ma gnetic Vi deo Ca mera ), analog recording on 3 ½ "- floppy disk ; the presented device, however, does not come on the market.
	Reflecta : Introduction of the CS system for slide photography, the projector magazines now hold twice as many slides as universal magazines in the same space thanks to the thin plastic frames.
	Kodak : Kodacolor VR-1000 with T-grain crystals, first color film with sensitivity of ISO 1000/31 °.
1983	Olympus OM-4: the first 35mm camera that enables spot exposures with up to eight different measurements (multi-spot metering).
	Nikon FA : first camera with multi-field exposure metering
	Kodak , Fujifilm : Introduction of New Fine Grain Films Based on T-Crystal Technology of Disc Material.
	3M : ColorSlide 1000, first slide film with sensitivity of ISO 1000/31 °.
	Kodak introduced the DX coding system for 35mm films . It enables the automatic scanning of the film speed in the housing.
1984	Canon T70 : Move away from mechanical controls; first SLR camera with a large LC display.
	Introduction of the first commercial digital cameras from the Canon ION series .
1985	Minolta 7000 : the first motorized SLR autofocus camera with TTL AF and an AF motor integrated in the housing.
	Tamron Fotovix: device for copying slides and negatives onto video tape.
1986	Contax 167MT: first camera with automatic exposure bracketing.
	Leitz : Leica R5 : the first KB-SLR with variable automatic programs, which enables light value combinations of time and aperture as with a central shutter.
	Kodak T-Max: first black and white film with flat crystals.
1987	Rolleiflex 2.8 GX: two-lens camera with TTL exposure and flash metering.
	Mamiya : 6 × 6 viewfinder camera with interchangeable lenses.
1988	Minolta Dynax 7000i : uses a "predictive" autofocus for moving objects for the first time.
	Bridge cameras are supposed to combine the advantages of SLR and viewfinder cameras, but have a built-in zoom ( Chinon GS-7, Olympus AZ-300, Ricoh Mirai).
	Yashica : Samurai, attempt to revive the half format .
1989	Introduction of the "disposable" cameras ("single use").
1990	Kodak DCS 100: the first digital SLR camera based on the Nikon F3 .
	Fuji Fujichrome Velvia: Introduction of the high-resolution slide film for the E-6 development process by Fujifilm .
	Agfa : Introduction of the "Digital Print System" (DPS, Digiprint), based on a digital printer that enables high-quality positive copies of slides on negative paper.
1991	Presentation of the Noblex panorama cameras by Noble Werke in Dresden (today: Kamerawerke Dresden).
	Fujifilm DSC-100: first digital camera to record image data in JPEG format.
1992	Kodak Photo CD : Presentation by Kodak and Philips (“electronic photo album”).
	Nikon : Nikonos RS, the first underwater SLR camera.
1993	Fujicolor Super G: First color negative film with ISO 800/30 °.
1994	Nikon : Zoom 700VR, viewfinder camera with blur reduction function.
1995	Canon EF-S 4.0–5.6 / 75–300 mm IS USM: first lens with integrated image stabilizer .
	Casio QV 10 : The first digital camera of today's standards suitable for the amateur sector is introduced.
	Fujifilm 645: first medium format camera with autofocus.
	Agfa : Introduction of the black and white slide film Scala 200, which replaces the Agfa DD (Dia-Direkt).
	Mamiya 7: First rangefinder camera for the 6 × 7 format with interchangeable lenses.
	Lomo : single camera with "cult status"
1996	The magazine Photographie presents itself as the first German-language photo magazine on the Internet.
	Introduction of the APS ( Advanced Photo System ) in April by Canon , Fujifilm , Kodak , Minolta and Nikon .
	Minolta Dimâge RD-3000: First digital reflex camera with interchangeable lenses (2.7 million pixels) adapted to the sensor format.
	98% of the current photos from the Düsseldorf BILD local editorial team come from digital cameras.
	Hasselblad XPan: 35mm, two-format camera developed by Fujifilm for normal and true panoramic shots.
	Fujifilm : Fujichrome 100ix, first APS slide film.
1997	Diavography : The repro process co-developed by GEO photographer Heinz Teufel enables high-quality photo prints using digital technology.
1999	Nikon D1 : First large-scale digital SLR camera, beginning of the widespread use of digital cameras in press photography.
	Nokia Communicator 9110 (with GEOS OS): multifunctional mobile phone communicates with the Casio QV-7000SX digital camera via an IR interface.
2000	Ricoh RDC-i700: internet-capable digital camera with touchscreen display (9 cm diagonal).
	Sharp : The J-SH04 is the first mobile phone with a built-in camera to hit the market in Japan

21st century

Important developments : Turning point: For the first time, the German photo trade generates more sales with digital cameras than with conventional models; Camera functions built into cell phones are used more frequently than cameras only; global collapse of the analog photography industry . Electronic viewfinder , mirrorless system cameras , digital cameras and camera systems get over the years more and more innovative features that facilitate the work of photographers and improve, such as contrast measurement , white balance , Live View , screen magnifier , focus peaking , live histogram of Exposure values , face detection , high dynamic range image , image stabilization , automatic sensor cleaning , high sensor sensitivities , automatic compensation for distortion , peripheral light drop and chromatic aberration , super zoom .

2001	Museum of Modern Art , New York: The MOMA in New York is dedicating a solo exhibition to a German photographer for the first time, Becher student Andreas Gursky .
2002	Olympus and Kodak announce the Four Thirds standard. It essentially consists of interchangeable lenses and corresponding single-lens reflex camera housings.
	Kyocera : the Contax N Digital is the first digital single-lens reflex camera with a full-size sensor (24 × 36 mm).
	With the SD9, Sigma introduces the first camera with a Foveon image sensor .
2003	Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F828: first consumer camera with 8  megapixels (4color CCD)
2004	Nikon F6 : End point of the development of the 35mm SLR camera
	Konica Minolta Dynax 7D : first DSLR with an image stabilization (anti-shake) system integrated into the camera housing.
	Epson RD-1: is the first digital rangefinder camera, it has a Leica M bayonet.
2005	Olympus E-330 : the first digital SLR camera with live view (the viewfinder image can be seen on the moving screen at all times); 7.5 megapixel MOS (Four Thirds) sensor.
	AgfaPhoto, u. a. Manufacturer of Agfa photo films and Agfa photo paper and distributor of Asian digicnips, goes bankrupt.
2007	The smartphone is gradually taking hold as the general cellular phone design. The built-in cameras and camera functions are becoming more and more sophisticated. The sales figures for entry-level digital cameras are therefore falling for the first time.
2008	Olympus and Panasonic announce the Micro Four Thirds system, in which the camera bodies are equipped without mirrors. The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G1 is presented as the first camera housing of the new system.
	Nikon D90 : first digital SLR camera with real video function for recording films.
2009	Kodak : Kodak is discontinuing production of KODACHROME films that have been in production since 1935.
	Fujifilm : With the "FINEPIX REAL 3D W1" camera, Fujifilm is launching the first digital 3D camera and the first autostereoscopic 3D display "FINEPIX REAL 3D V1".
2010	Panasonic introduces the Lumix DMC-G2, the first system camera housing with a touch-sensitive screen .
2011	For the photography Rhein II by Andreas Gursky , photographer from Düsseldorf, Christie's achieved a record result of 3.19 million euros.
2013	Ilford Imaging Switzerland : On July 30, 2013, the manufacturer of analog film and photo consumables had to announce that it could not find an investor and then went bankrupt on November 28, 2013. The British company ILFORD PHOTO is not affected.
2014	Panasonic : Panasonic is launching the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 in the Micro Four Thirds, the first system camera with a data rate of up to 200 megabits per second and the option of recording video recordings in 4k mode .
2015	Panasonic / Sony : with the Sony A7 II and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 , the first digital camera housings are presented in which the mechanical image stabilization in the camera housing can be combined with that in the lenses.

See also

• Photo technology pioneers
• History and development of photography

literature

• Gerhard Ihrke: Timeline for the history of photography . Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1982.
• Beaumont Newhall: History of Photography . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-88814-319-5 .
• Robert White: Discovering old cameras . Shire, 1981, ISBN 0-85263-542-7 .

Web links

• Chronology of photography (a much more extensive chronology than this selection, which formed the basis for this Wikipedia article)
• Bibliography on the technical development of photography. Technical University of Harburg
• History of Photography Timeline by Philip Greenspun at photo.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article at Photopedia (English)
2. ↑ Digital photography: Umbruch bei Spiegelreflex , test.de , December 19, 2002, accessed online on April 15, 2013
3. ↑ Lori Grunin and Stefan Möllenhoff: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 in the test: first interchangeable lens camera with touchscreen , cnet.de from April 28, 2010, accessed on June 27, 2018