Thomas Sutton

Thomas Sutton, born around 1819 and died March 19, 1875, in Kensington, England, was an English photographer, author, and inventor. He built the first single lens reflex camera in 1861 and, in 1859, an early panoramic camera with a wide-angle lens that captured a 120 degree arc in one exposure. In 1861 he served as the photographer for physicist James Clerk Maxwell's pioneering color photography demonstration, producing the tartan ribbon image sometimes called the first permanent color photograph. Sutton also wrote photography reference works, including the Dictionary of Photography (1858), and co-founded and edited the journal Photographic Notes for eleven years.