An overview on how cameras evolved in a detailed timeline, from camera obscura to camera phone.
1500
Camera Obscura, the first pinhole camera was invented by Ibn Al-Haytham. It is a box with a small hole in it, through which light travels and strikes a reflective surface to project an image in color, upside down. The camera obscura was originally used to observe solar events and in drawing architecture.
1839
The Daguerreotype Camera by Louis Daguerre is one of the world’s most expensive cameras.
1840
The development of images on paper was made possible by the invention of the camera by Alexander. The earliest photography shop, daguerran parlour was opened in New York by Mr. Wolcott.
1859
The panoramic camera
1861
Stereoscope viewer was invented by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1888
George Eastman, a pioneer in photographic films usage, patented Kodak roll-film camera.
1900
The Kodak Brownie Camera by Eastman.
The most desirable travel camera for landscape photographers, Raisecamera, was invented.
1913/1914
Candid camera, the first 35mm still camera by Oskar Barnack.
1948
Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute was invented by Edwin Land.
1960
Underwater camera for U.S. Navy by EG&G.
1978
First autofocus camera Konica C35 AF by Konica.
1981
Sony Mavica – The world’s first digital electronic still camera.
1986
The disposable camera introduced by Fuji (also called single use cameras).
1991
Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was widely used by photojournalists.
1994-1996
The first digital cameras that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (1995), the Casio QV-11 with LCD screen (1995) and Sony’s Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).
2000
The world’s first camera phone.
2005
The canon EOS 5D is launched.
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