History of cameras

By tanmarie
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    The Polaroid camera

    The Polaroid camera
    Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute.
  • 1500

    Pinhole camera

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

  • 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.

  • Alexander Walcott

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

  • The panoramic camera

    The panoramic camera
    The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton.

  • Stereoscope Viewer

    Stereoscope Viewer
    Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.

  • Kodak roll-film camera

    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 Brownie

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

  • The Raisecamera

    The 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.

  • The Candid camera

    The 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.

  • First underwater camera

    First underwater camera
    EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

  • Konica C35 AF

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

  • Sony Mavica

    Sony 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.

  • Apple Quick Take 100 camera

    Apple Quick Take 100 camera
    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).

  • Sharp J-SH04

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

  • Mirrorless Cameras

    Mirrorless Cameras
    They’re typically smaller than a consumer-level DSLR and produce images that compete with DSLRs in quality. And they’re gaining popularity, especially among traveling photographers, street photographers and photography enthusiasts who want great pictures without lugging a giant DSLR around.

  • GoPro

    GoPro
    A surfer named Nick Woodman wanted a way to capture photos while he was surfing, so he began tinkering with 35mm cameras. Woodman continued to improve on his design, and in 2010, his company, GoPro, released the GoPro HD Hero.

  • Light-Field Cameras

    Light-Field Cameras
    This camera opened up an entire world of new possibilities for photographers and audiences. The technology featured in the Lytro captures information from the subject being photographed that allows the resulting image to be refocused after it’s been taken.