Photography throughout time: A Visual Timeline Year 9 Photography and Digital Media 2018
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Photography throughout time: A Visual Timeline Year 9 Photography and Digital Media 2018
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1839 Daguerreotype Camera
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. -
1840 The first American patent issued in photography
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. -
1859 The panoramic camera
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. -
1888 Kodak roll-film camera
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. -
1900 The Brownie
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. -
1913 candid camera
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 -
1948 Polaroid camera
in 1948 the first Polaroid camera was made by Ewin Land and could print a picture within 1 minuet -
1978 Konica C35 AF
a company known as Konica created the first point and shoot camera called Konica C35 AF it was also known as “Jasupin” -
1981 Sony Mavica
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 -
1991 Kodak DCS
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. -
1994-1996 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 first cameras for the consumer market which worked with a computer via cables. These products allowed every day people to get into photography -
2000 J-SH04
In Japan, a company called Sharp released the J-SH04 which was the very first camera built in a phone -
2005 Canon EOS 5D
in 2005 The Canon EOS 5D is released. This was first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR camera with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor. -
2013 Nokia Lumia 1020
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
