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Kodak roll-film camera
George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885. His first Kodak box camera was very simple and very cheap. -
Candid Camera
The first 35mm still camera (also called candid camera ) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras. -
Polaroid Camera
Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute. -
Jasupin
Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”. -
Mavica
Sony demonstrates the Sony Mavica – the world’s first digital electronic still camera. Digital photography and television images are related to the same technology, so this camera recorded images into a mini disk and then put them into a video reader. Images could be displayed to a television monitor or color printer. -
Disposable camera
Fuji introduced the disposable camera. The inventors also call this device “single-use cameras”. -
The Brownie
First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s. -
Raisecamera
The Raisecamera (travel camera) was invented. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when it is folded made this photo camera the most desirable thing for landscape photographers. -
DCS
Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was of a great use for photojournalists. It was a modified Nikon F-3 camera with a 1.3 megapixel sensor. -
Cosumer-Level market
The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony’s Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996). -
Camera Phone
In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone. -
Canon
The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor. -
Iphone
Today Iphones have the best high definition camera.
