Cameras

History of Cameras (1839 - 2005)

By delphinew

  • The Daguerreotype camera

    The Daguerreotype camera
    The Daguerreotype Camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the world’s most expensive cameras.

  • The Panoramic camera

    The Panoramic camera
    The first panoramic camera patented, was by Thomas Sutton.

  • The Stereoscope viewer camera

    The Stereoscope viewer camera
    The first Stereoscope viewer camera was invented by Olivier Wendell Holmes.

  • The Kodak roll-film camera

    The Kodak roll-film camera
    The first Kodak roll-film camera was created by George Eastman. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage, he also started manufacturing paper films in 1885. Back at the time, the first Kodak box camera was very simple to use and very cheap.

  • The Raise camera

    The Raise camera
    The Raise camera also known as the travel camera was invented by Alhazen, a Muslim scientist. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when it is folded made this photo camera the most desirable thing for landscape photographers.

  • The 35mm still camera

    The 35mm still camera
    The first 35mm still camera, also known as the candid camera was developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras.

  • The Polaroid camera

    The Polaroid camera
    The first Polaroid camera was invented by Edwin Land. This camera could take a picture and print it in about one minute.

  • The Jasupin camera

    The Jasupin camera
    The Jasupin was introduced by Konica, it was the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF.

  • The Sony Mavica camera

    The Sony Mavica camera
    The Sony Mavica camera, was 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.

  • The Disposable camera

    The Disposable camera
    The Disposable camera was first introduce by Fuji. This camera is also known as the “single-use cameras”.

  • The Digital camera

    The Digital camera
    The Digital camera system was first released by Kodak, which was of a great use for photojournalists. It was a modified Nikon F-3 camera with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

  • The Digital cameras for the consumer-level market

    The Digital cameras for the consumer-level market
    The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market 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).

  • The camera phone

    The camera phone
    The world’s first camera phone was introduced in Japan by Sharp.

  • The Canon EOS camera

    The Canon EOS camera
    The Canon EOS 5D is the first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.