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 1913

Luminous 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

something incredible worth

documenting happen you won’t

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.

SOURCES

1. http://inventors.about.com/od/weirdmuseums/ig/Illustrated-History-Photograph/The-

Calotype-Process-.htm

2. http://torontosavvy.me/2013/05/19/frank-william-micklethwaite-1849-1925-left-behind-an-architectural-

record/

3. http://www.albertina.at/jart/prj3/albertina/main.jart?content-

id=1216730388081&rel=en&images_id=1215680360855

4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/kodak-no-1_n_4025737.html

5. http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/saving-treasures-morgue

6. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/canon-17-40.shtml

SOURCES CONT.

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

7.

8. http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2010/11/11/photos-joanna-newsom-live-in-

dallas/joanna-newsom-polaroid-600/

9. http://hannahandlandon.blogspot.com/2011/11/around-brooklyn-with-

disposable-camera.html

10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn

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

camera/