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History of Cameras

By madelynmoore
  • Jan 1, 1500

    First Camera

    First Camera
    The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).

  • Daguerrotype Camera

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

  • First American Patent

    First American Patent
    The first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

  • First Panoramic Camera

    First Panoramic Camera
    The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton.

  • First Kodak Camera

    First Kodak 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.

  • First Mass-Marketed Camera

    First Mass-Marketed Camera
    First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie � was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s.

  • First Travel Camera

    First Travel Camera
    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.

  • First 35mm Camera

    First 35mm 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.

  • First Polaroid Camera

    First Polaroid Camera
    Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute.

  • First point-and-shoot camera

    First point-and-shoot camera
    Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”.

  • First Digital Electronic Still Camera

    First Digital Electronic Still Camera
    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.

  • First DCS

    First 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.

  • First consumer-level digital cameras

    First consumer-level digital cameras
    1994-1996 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).

  • First camera phone

    First camera phone
    In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.

  • First consumer-priced full frame camera

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