TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE

By: Danielle Joseph

CALOTYPE 1841

Calotype pictures were made from silver chloride sensitized papers. In order to get a picture, the paper had to be exposed to the camera until the picture was able to be seen.

Henry Fox Talbot (1835)

COLLODION 1851

William Micklethwaite (1850)Pictures developed using the collodion process took about 15 minutes. The photographic material had to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed. It was used for mainly landscape and art photography. Everything had to be done before the plate dried and it needed a portable darkroom.

DRY PLATE 1871

Vienna, Albertina (1862) Sometimes called the gelatin process. It required a whole lot of chemicals and a dark room to get the pictures. It captured many details and took ten minutes to get a pictures partly because of slow photography speed.

ROLL FILM 1888 Collection of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum (1890)

Spool type of film using white light to print pictures. After the development of this, photographers were able to take a couple with them and made taking lot of pictures more portable. They were also small enough to pack. The spool was attached to one side of the camera and the film was pulled across, as pictures were taken more film on the spool was rolled out.

SPEED GRAPHIC CAMERA 1912

The State Journal-Register (1929)

Called press cameras. Most commonly used by the press up until the 1960s. It was a very slow camera, each time the photographer used the camera they had to change the film sheet and refocus the camera. Taking the time to do all this can cause photographers to loose precious time and made take a bunch of pictures a long time. Photographers had to time everything at the correct moment to know when to take the picture or less they would loose it.

35 MM 1913Luminous Landscapes

Was used for photography and film. It now included color and can be rotated to widescreen. It was very versatile at capturing moments in photography and movies. The lens were able to maually focus. The top cameras today I would say are nikon and canon. It was the closest to the focal composition of the human eye.

ROTOGRAVURE 1930

Eliott and Fry (1880) It engraved an image onto an image carrier. It uses a rotary printing press and engraved onto a cylinder. The pictures printed on this would survive large printing runs without the pictures degrading or fading. The pictures often came out in good quality.

POLAROID 1948

Polaroid cameras were called instant cameras. As soon as you took a picture, it was instantly printed on a polaroid paper which slid out of a slot on the camera. After a few seconds of shaking the paper the picture would appear. It let photojournalist have the ability to retake a picture after seeing if they got it right or not the fist few times. Polaroid pictures couldn't’t be altered, and often came out to be a lot darker then what is actually seen.

David Bartholow

DISPOSABLE CAMERA 1986

Disposable Cameras are only used one time hence the name “disposable”. It used with a film roll and sometimes flash. It was cheap enough you can buy a couple at a time and if you are somewhere and you get your camera stolen or misplaced is wasn’t too missed unless there was some great shot on there. After using all the roll, one would take it to a camera center to have it developed. Disposable cameras delayed photojournalist getting their pictures out there because of the amount of time it take to get the camera pictures developed and printed.

Hannah Kristina Metz

CAMERA PHONES 1990

Philippe Kahn 1997

With most phones coming with cameras, it only makes sense that most pictures are being taken with them. If you just happen to be out and soething incredible worth documenting happen you wont always have your camera with you but you will have your phone. Now a days most people are using instagram and various social websites to get pictures taken from their camera phones on there.

WIFI-ENABLED DSLRS 2012

Richard Jones Wifi enabled cameras made it easier for photojournalist to take pictures and send it directly to their computer, email, or even printers. It makes getting that picture out to the public that much faster, with no wait or hassles. The thing is not many places outside the US necessarily have wifi, without the wifi it just serves as a regular digital camera.

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6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotogravure

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11. http://www.blackburnlife.com/2012/04/digital-photography-choice-camera/