Dates

Question 1

Italian scholars used the camera as a drawing apparatus. Instead of using a darkroom, they used box with a leans
and placed a mirrors

Answer 1

16th century

Question 2

Camera Obscura was built – in with convex lens.

Answer 2

17th century

Question 3

Thomas Wedgwood and Humphey Davy produced photograms

Answer 3

1800

Question 4

The birth year of modern photography, the year when the
Science of Photography became a public knowledge.

Answer 4

1839

Question 5

French Police used daguerreotypes for personal identification of known criminals.

Answer 5

1841

Question 6

The earliest evidence of photographic documentation of prison inmates in Belgium and in 1851 in Denmark.

First mugshots

Answer 6

1843-1844

Question 7

The year when photography was already well – developed.

Answer 7

1850

Question 8

In the United States, one of the earliest applied Forensic Science was in photography.

Enlarged photographs of a signature were presented in a court case involving forgery.

Answer 8

1859

Question 9

The first recorded use of accident photography which was admitted as evidence regarding an injured horse and a buggy.

Answer 9

1875

Question 10

Full corrected lens were introduced

Answer 10

1890

Question 11

The first mass – marketed camera (The Brownie).

Answer 11

1900

Question 12

Will West case of Leavenworth highlight the value of
fingerprints.

Answer 12

1903

Question 13

A plate was placed on the market that could reproduce all colors in equivalent shades of gray.

Answer 13

1906

Question 14

In Denver, Colorado, all intoxicated persons were photographed at the Police station

Answer 14

1907

Question 15

The State of Massachusetts approved the use of photographic speed recorders to detect speeding motorists.

Answer 15

1910

Question 16

The first 35mm still camera was developed

Answer 16

1913-1914

Question 17

Photoflash bulbs were used and readily accepted by the public.

Answer 17

1930

Question 18

Eastman Kodak Company markets Kodachrome film

Answer 18

1935

Question 19

Underwater camera for US navy was developed

Answer 19

1960

Question 20

LASER was invented making possible holograms tridimensional pictures

Answer 20

1960

Question 21

Polaroid Company introduced their Polacolor film making it
possible to take finished color pictures in less than a
minute.

Answer 21

1963

Question 22

The introduction of the fully automatic electronic flash.

Answer 22

1965

Question 23

The beginning of the use of video tapes as legal evidence

Answer 23

1967

Question 24

Photograph of the Earth from the moon was done

Answer 24

1968

Question 25

Colored photography has matured as an artistic medium.

Answer 25

1970

Question 26

Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX – 70 camera.

Answer 26

1973

Question 27

George Eastman and Edwin Land were introduced into the National Inventor Hall of Fame.

Answer 27

1977

Question 28

Konica introduces first point – and – shoot autofocus camera.

Answer 28

1978

Question 29

Sony demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

Answer 29

1980

Question 30

Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.

Answer 30

1985

Question 31

Eastman Kodak Company announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.

Answer 31

1990

Question 32

Arrival of true digital cameras

Answer 32

1998