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The Pinhole Camera
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole. Light from a scene passes through the pinhole and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. The first pinhole camera was invented by Alhazen. It is also know as the Camera Obscura . -
Period: 1500 to
The Evolution of Photography
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The Daguerreotype Camera
The Daguerreotype Camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. It works by a copper plate coated with silver iodide being exposed to light in a camera, then fumed with mercury vapour and made permanent by a solution of common salt. -
"Wolcotts Camera"
"Wolcott's Camera" contained the first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. Alexander Wolcott discovered how to stop photos from fading over time. -
The Panoramic Camera
The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton. It is made of a Mahogany body, lacquered-brass fittings, the top with inset double spirit level, removable curved focusing back, screw focusing and the lens shade. -
The Stereoscope Viewer
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. it works by two pictures mounted next to each other, viewed with a set of lenses known as a stereoscope. -
The First 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. -
The First Mass-Marketed Camera
First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s. The Brownie was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. -
The Reisekamera
The Reisekamera was invented. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when it is folded made this photo camera the most desirable thing for landscape photographers.The name meaning a "travel camera", is a large wooden bellows tailboard view camera of almost standardised design. -
The First 35mm Camera
The first 35mm still camera developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras. It was the first easy to carry and small camera unlike the other cameras at the time which were big and bulky. -
The First Polaroid Camera
Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and chemically develop it to print it in about one minute. contained a roll of positive paper with a pod of chemicals.Turning a knob forcing exposed negative and paper through rollers, which spread the reagents evenly between the two layers and pushed it out of the camera. after a minute the layers could be peeled apart to reveal the black-and-white photo. -
First Underwater Camera
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy -
The First Professional Digital Camera System (DCS)
Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS). It was mainly use by photojournalists. It was fully developed to a full frame 18-megapixel KAF-18500 -
Apple QuickTake 100 camera
The Apple QuickTake 100 camera was the first digital cameras open to the public that worked with a home computer with a serial cable. This revolutionized how photography worked as the images were then accesible on computers with this camera. -
Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 - First Camera Phone
Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone. Although, the quality was low this was very revolutionary in cameras and therefore inspired the more modern phones like samsungs, with built in, high quality cameras. -
The Canon EOS 5D
The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor and a 12.8-megapixel digital single-lens reflex. It is the first ever full-frame DSLR camera with a standard body size. -
Sony Ericsson S750
The S750 was the first camera phone to feature autofocus and a 2MP sensor. This phone helped fuel an arms race of sorts between Sony Ericsson and other phone manufacterers as to who could make the best camera phone. -
The first action camera - GoPro HD Hero
Nick Woodman wanted a way to capture photos while he was surfing, so he began playing with 35mm cameras. He continued to improve on his design, and in 2010 he released the GoPro HD Hero. -
IPhone X
This is the newest phone from Apple. The camera of this phone is a 12-megapixel wide shot lens and has Dual optical image stabilization, portrait lighting, exposure control, body and face detection and many more features. This camera on this phone is a testimony on how far cameras have come
