Photography throughout time: A Visual Timeline Year 9 Photography and Digital Media 2018
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The Daguerreotype Camera was made by the French Academy of Sciences. the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography. It was named after its creator Louis Daguerre. Each daguerreotype is a unique image captured on a silvered copper plate. It is also now one of the most expensive cameras you can by, as they are not produced anymore.
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in 1840 Alexander Wolcott created the first American camera. known as the mirror camera. It was built using Daguerre’s chemical formula and reduced the time it took to take a photo from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. Mr. Johnson paid Daguerre only 150 pounds for the use of his process.
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The first panoramic camera was made by a man called Thomas Sutton. About 30 of this camera was ever made. It was the first camera made that used a wide-angle lens that allowed to capture a field of view wider than the human eye.
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in 1888 George Eastman creates the Kodak roll-film camera, which used film to capture photos. George also starts creating and manufacturing film to sell. The Kodak camera was also cheap and easily affordable making it a big succes.
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In 1900 The Brownie (created by Eastman Kodak) was the first mass-marketed camera that kept selling until 1960. It was a camera that used a new artificial substance called celluloid.
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the candid camera the first 33mm still camera. developed and made by a man called Oskar Barnack. After the camera became a big success it later became the standard for all of the film cameras
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in 1948 the first Polaroid camera was made by Ewin Land and could print a picture within 1 minuet
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a company known as Konica created the first point and shoot camera called Konica C35 AF it was also known as “Jasupin”
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in 1981 Sony releases the first ever digital camera called the Sony Mavica. This camera worked by recording images and then putting them on a mini disk so it could later be put on a video reader, which allowed the pictures to be seen on technology such as telivison
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in 1991 Kodak released the first professional camera system, which was used a lot by photojournalists at the time. It was pretty much a modified version of the Nikon F-3 camera with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.
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the first cameras for the consumer market which worked with a computer via cables. These products allowed every day people to get into photography
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In Japan, a company called Sharp released the J-SH04 which was the very first camera built in a phone
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in 2005 The Canon EOS 5D is released. This was first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR camera with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.
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in 2013 Nokia released a 41-megapixel camera which was larger than any prosumer-level DSLR available. The 1020 also featured a Carl Zeiss lens, image stabilization, and PurView Pro technology, which enables lossless digital zoom, and this was all on a phone
