History of Camera and Film

By mborg4

  • Daguerreotype

    Daguerreotype
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    History of camera and film

  • Calotype or Talbotype

    Calotype or Talbotype

  • First transparent photographic film

    was made out of paper and available for wholesale in London, England

  • KODAK camera went on sale

    It was a very simple box camera with a fixed-focus lens and single shutter speed that needed to be sent back to the factory to process and reload when the roll was finished.

  • First transparent plastic roll film

    film was now made out of plastic and put on a roll. It was available for commercial sale

  • Thomas Edison's motion picture camera

  • First daylight-loading camera

    the photographer could now reload the camera without using a darkroom

  • Pocket KODAK Camera

  • Folding Pocket KODAK Camera

  • Brownie camera introduced

    Brownie camera introduced

  • KODAK developing machine introduced

    made developing film possible with out a darkroom

  • KODAK Non-Curling Film was introduced

  • World's first commercially practical safety film

  • Introduction of EASTMAN Portrait Film

    sheet film could be used instead of glass plates for professional photographers.

  • Prototype 35 mm camera (Ur-Leica)

  • Kodak developed aerial cameras

    rhey trained aerial photographers for the U.S. Signal Corps during World War I.

  • First compact camera 'Leica I' used 35mm cine film

    First compact camera 'Leica I' used 35mm cine film

  • Franke & Heidecke Rolleiflex medium format TLR

  • First motion picture film designed for making sound motion pictures.

  • Contrax-cemented 35mm film as format of choice

  • First 8 mm amateur motion-picture film, cameras, and projectors

  • Introdfuction of Ihagee Exakta, a compact SLR

  • Kodak's first 35 mm precision KODAK RETINA Cameras

  • First commercially successful amateur color film (KODACHROME Film)

  • 35mm TLRs, the best-known of which was the Contaflex

  • Kodak introduced a new home movie camera (16 mm Magazine CINE-KODAK Camera)

  • World's first true 35mm SLR was Soviet "Sport" camera

  • first camera with built-in photoelectric exposure control (Super KODAK Six-20 Camera)

  • World's first true color negative film- KODACOLOR Film for prints

  • Polaroid Model 95, the world's first viable instant-picture camera

  • The first pentaprism SLR-Contax S

  • BROWNIE 8 mm Movie Camera was introduced

  • KODAK TRI-X Film, a high-speed black-and-white film, was introduced

  • Kodak invented the world's first digital camera

  • 'point and shoot' automatic focus camera is launched by Konica

  • Kodak launched "disc photography" with a line of compact, "decision-free" cameras built around a rotating disc of film

  • disposable single use cameras.

  • first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P

  • First commercially available digital camers that used pixels

  • The Apple QuickTake camera, a home use digital camera is launched

  • first camera that offered the ability to record video clips-Ricoh RDC