Key Milestones
The invention and evolution of photography — the moments that changed how we see the world.
Kodachrome colour reversal film is introduced by Kodak, followed by Agfacolor. For the first time, ordinary photographers could shoot vibrant colour images without a studio.
Kodak engineer Steven Sasson builds the world's first self-contained digital camera — 3.6kg, 0.01 megapixels, storing images on a cassette tape.
The Kodak DCS 100, based on the Nikon F3 body, becomes the first commercially available professional digital camera, used by photojournalists covering the Gulf War.
The world's first commercially available camera phone — the Sharp J-SH04 — goes on sale in Japan, beginning the transformation of the mobile phone into a photographic device.
The iPhone launches the smartphone photography era. By 2023, over 1.4 trillion photographs are taken annually — more in a year than in all of photography's first 170 years combined.
20 milestones total · 5 per page
