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1500 BCE
First Pinhole camera, invented by Ibn Al-Haytham
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box, which is known as the camera obscura effect -
Daguerreotype Camera invented by
he Daguerreotype process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly available photographic process, and for nearly twenty years it was the one most commonly used. -
Original Kodak camera invented by George Eastman
his Original Kodak camera, introduced by George Eastman, placed the power of photography in the hands of anyone who could press a button. Unlike earlier cameras that used a glass-plate negative for each exposure, the Kodak came preloaded with a 100-exposure roll of flexible film -
Polaroid camera invented Edwin Land
could take a picture and print it in about one minute. -
Sony Mavica made by Sony
The world’s first digital electronic still camera -
Apple QuickTake 100 camera made by Apple
One of the first digital cameras for the consumer level market that worked with home computer via serial cable -
The Canon EOS 5D introduced by Canon in Japan
This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.
