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History of Video Technology and Photography. By Mary Claire Paddock. 5 th - 4 th centuries B.C. . The basic principles of optics and the camera are described by Chinese and Greek philosophers. . Ancient Times. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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History of Video Technology and PhotographyBy Mary Claire Paddock
5th - 4th centuries B.C.
The basic principles of optics and the camera are described by Chinese and
Greek philosophers.
Ancient TimesCamera obscuras were used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole.
1664Isaac Newton
discovers that white light is composed of
different colors.
1727Johann Heinrich Schulze
discovers that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to
light. This was the beginning to photographic technology that would be
essential for movies.
1822Joseph Niepce takes first, fixed photograph
using a non-lense contact-printing heliographic process.
1837Louis Dagurre took first
image that was fixed, did not fade, and needed less
than thirty minutes of light exposure.
1839William Fox Talbot invents the positive/negative process widely used in modern photography. He refers to this a photogenic drawing.
1861The first color photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell. The image is of a tartan ribbon.
1878Edward Muybridge made a high-speed photographic demonstration of a moving horse, airborne during a trot, using a trip-wire system.
1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
1888Kodak n1 box camera is
mass marketed as the first easy to use camera.
1891Thomas Edison patents the kinetoscopic camera (motion pictures).
1900 The Kodak Brownie.
1913
First 35mm still camera is developed.
1914The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, the first dramatic feature film in color is released.
1923
Doc Harold Edgerton invents the xenon flash
lamp and strobe photography.
1926Kodak introduces its 35
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.
1932The first full color movie, the cartoon Flowers and Trees, is made in Technicolor by Disney.
1932First 8mm amateur motion picture film, cameras, and projectors are introduced by Kodak.
1939The View-Master stereo viewer is introduced.
1942
Chester Carson received a patent for electric
photography, xerography.
1948
Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant
image camera.
1952The 3-D film craze begins.
1957First digital image
produced on a computer by Russell Kirsch at U.S.
National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
1959
AGFA introduces the first fully automatic camera,
the Optima.
1973Fairchild semiconductor releases the first large
image forming CCD chip; 100 rows and 100
columns.
1975
Sony introduces the Betamax consumer VCR
for $2,295.
1976
JVC introduces the VHS format for the VCR starting at $885.
1980Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder, an
electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into
one unit.
1984
Cannon demonstrates first digital camera.
1986
Kodak scientists invent the world’s first
megapixel sensor.
1990Eastman Kodak
announces the photo CD as a digital image storage
medium.
1996DVD-Video players start
selling in Japan.
2006
Dalsa produces 111 megapixel CCD sensor,
the highest resolution at its time.
2006Digital photography
steadily edged out the use of a film camera, so much that Polaroid announces it
is discontinuing the production of all instant film
products.
2006
The first HD DVD players are released in Japan for
$934.
2008
The Blu-ray and HD DVD war is over, and Blu-ray is declared the winner. After Wal-Mart stores said they would no longer sell HD DVD players, Toshiba, the main backer of HD DVD high-definition disc technology,
declared that the company would no longer continue to manufacture HD DVD
players.