AVCHD (2006)

 

the Leica M8 (November 2006)

 

the Samsung Digimax L85 (2006)

 

digital photo frames (2005)

 

the Epson R-D1 (2004) is the first digital rangefinder camera

 

HDV (2004)

 

HDMI (2003)

 

the Foveon X3 sensor (2002)

 

 

HDRI (1999)

 

HDTV (1999) usually uses a 16:9 aspect ratio display

 

super ccd (1999)

 

stitching tools

 

the megapixel count (19??)

 

Advanced Photo System (1996)

 

jpeg (1992)

 

video projectors

 

Corbis (1989)

 

 

Lomography

 

the Moving Picture Experts Group (1988)

 

 

the first digital desktop slide scanner (1987) was produced by Barneyscan

 

Video Graphics Array (1987)

 

ISO film speed scales (1987)

 

 

the quicksnap (1986)

 

Enhanced Graphics Adapter (1984)

 

the camcorder (1983)

 

Color Graphics Adapter (1981)

 

the Mavica (1981)

 

 

bitmap graphics editors (1980s)

 

VHS (September 1976)

 

Betamax (1976)

 

the E-6 process (1975)

 

 

the CCD flatbed scanner (1975) was invented by Ray Kurzweil

 

digital photography (1970s)

 

IMAX (1970)

 

Head-mounted displays (1968)

 

liquid crystal displays (1968)

 

PAL (1963)

 

RCA TK-40/41 (1953)

 

slide projectors (1950s)

 

photokina (1950)

 

holography (1948)

 

Polaroid cameras (1948)

 

the overhead projector (1940s)

 

NTSC (1940)

 

Kirlian photography (1939)

 

the GOMZ Sport (1935) was the first 35 mm single-lens reflex camera

 

kodachrome (1935)

 

Zoom lenses (1832)

 

the first long distance television transmission (April 7, 1927) was over telephone lines from
Washington, DC to New York City. The image shown was of then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover

 

aperture

 

 

the Leica I (1924)

 

Schneider Kreuznach (1913)

 

infrared photography (1910)

 

slide transparencies (1903)

 

Autochrome film (1903)

 

 

the Brownie (1900)

 

Stop motion (1898)

 

the Lumière Cinématographe (1895)

 

35 mm film (1889)

 

the kinetoscope (1888)

 

 

George Eastman (1888) registered the trademark Kodak

 

photographic film (1885) was invented by George Eastman

 

the first colour photograph (1881) was taken by Frederic Ives

 

the zoopraxiscope (1879)

 

the flip book (1868)

 

 

the first permanent colour photograph (1861) was taken by James Clerk Maxwell

 

the collodion process (1848)

 

 

the talbotype process (1841)

 

 

the Daguerreotype (1839)

 

 

the Niépce photograph (1824)

 

the Panopticon (1791)

 

 

Laterna Magica (1671)

 

 

the camera obscura (15th century)

 

the pinhole camera (11th century)

 

optics