Timeline of photography technology

The following list comprises significant milestones in the development of photography technology.

The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 or 1827 [ 1 ]
View of the Boulevard du Temple , first photograph including a person (on pavement at lower left), by Daguerre, 1838
First durable color photograph, 1861
An 1877 photographic color print on paper by Louis Ducos du Hauron. The irregular edges of the superimposed cyan, red and yellow components can be seen.
Muybridge used high-speed photography to make the first animated image sequences photographed in real-time (1878–1887)
Photograph scanned into a digital computer, 1957
Josef H. Neumann: Chemogram Gustav I (C)1974