HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF

PHOTOGRAPHY
Forensic 1
BASIC COMPONENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY

1.Light
2.Equipment
3.Chemicals
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1839 – Birth year photography

1848 Abel Niepce de Saint Victor

- Introduce a process of
negative on glass using
albumen (egg white) as binding
medium.
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1850 Louis Deserie Blanquart Evard
- Introduce a printing paper coated with
albumen to achieve a glossy surface.

1851 Frederick Scott Archer

- Published a wet plate process when
collodion-a-viscous liquid that dries to
a tough flexible and transparent film-
replace albumen.
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1856 John F.W Herschel
- Coined the word
Photography.

1885 Gelatin emulsion printing

paper was commercially
introduced based films.
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1861 James Clark
Maxwell research on
color.

1890 Full Corrected

lenses were introduce.
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1906 A plate was place on the market that could reproduce all colours
in equivalent shades of gray.

1907 Lummiere colour process was introduce, a panchromatic film

was used but with blue, green, and red filter.

1914 U.S Eastman Kodak made a color subtractive process called

Kodachrome.
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1935 Color process came out together with electronic flash.

1947 Edwin H land introduced “Polaroid” the one-step-photography.

1960 LASER was invented making possible Holograms (three

dimensional pictures).

1988 The arrival of true digital cameras

1988 THE ARRIVAL OF TRUE DIGITAL CAMERAS
Fuji DS-1P 1988
- First digital camera with 16MB internal memory. This
camera was never marketed in the USA.
Kodak DCS-100 1992
- The first commercially available digital camera in the market.
It has 1.3 megapixel sensor and was priced at 13,000 US dollar.
Casio QV-10 1995
- The first consumer camera with a liquid crystal display on the
back.
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Kodak DC-25 1996
- The first camera to use compact flash.
Nikon D11999
- with 2.74 megapixel, the first digital SLR with the price of
under 6,000 US dollar.
Nikon 300D 1999
- Known as digital “rebel” with 6 megapixel and the first DSLR
priced under 1,000 US dollar.