Part 2 - The history of photography

Here are some key events and milestones in the history of photography: The invention of the camera obscura in the 5th century The invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century The introduction of the first commercial photographic process, the calotype, in the mid-19th century The development of the wet plate collodion process in the 1850s The invention of the dry plate process in the 1870s The introduction of flexible film in the 1880s The invention of the motion picture camera in the late 19th century The introduction of color photography in the early 20th century The popularization of amateur photography in the mid-20th century with the introduction of affordable 35mm cameras The development of digital photography in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.