The History of Photography Part 5

The History of Photography 1970 – 2000

1971 – Canon F-1 SLR Camera and FD Lenses introduced.

1972 – Texas Instruments patents a film-less electronic camera; National Gallery of Victoria opens the first photography department in an Australian Museum.

1973 – Australian Centre for photography opens in Sydney

1975 – First Digital camera using an image sensor developed by Kodak

1980 – Nikon F3 released by the Nikon Corporation, Nikon’s first electronic professional camera

1981 – First through the lens autofocus camera introduced by Pentax

1982 - Sony introduces the Mavica still video camera

1983 – Ken Duncan begins a five-year project to photograph Australia’s Iconic Landscapes producing over 80000 images in the process.

1985 – The iconic “The Afghan Girl” image is taken by Steve McCurry

1986 – Kodak invents the world’s first megapixel sensor.

1987 – Canon Introduces its popular EOS system

1989 – Fuji releases the DS-X the first portable digital camera

1990 – Adobe releases its first version of Photoshop

1991 – Kodak releases the DCS-100 the first digital SLR Camera which was based on the Nikon F3

1994 – SanDisk begins production of CompactFlash or CF memory cards for digital cameras

1997 – Philippe Kahn becomes the first person to publicly share an image via mobile phone

1999 – Nikon releases the D1 SLR which was the first DSLR designed from the ground up

2000 – Sharp introduces the first camera phone in Japan

http://photo.net/history/timeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography

http://www.britannica.com/technology/photography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_photography_technology