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Dec 11, 1521
The first camera
The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham). -
The first portable camera
It was envisioned by Johann Zahn in 1685. It took almost 150 years to be actually possible to build -
The first photography
Nicéphore Niépce was the person who took the photography, becoming the fist ever photographic in the history. It was taken by a Camera Obscura. -
The Daguerreotype Camera
It was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the world’s most expensive cameras. -
First color photography
Clerk Maxwell had the idea that any color could be obtained by mixing red, green and blue. So he took a photo of the same object three times and mixed the result. -
Kodak Brownie
Brownie is the name of a long-running popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. It introduced the concept of the snapshot. -
The Mamut camera
It was the biggest photographic camera for almost a century. It was built in 1900 and its name was "Mammoth" for its 640 kg weight, more than 4 meters long. 15 operators were needed to handle it. -
Voigtländer Avus
Is a folding camera for photographic plates, manufactured in Brunswick, Germany. The Avus was oriented to the advanced amateur, who looked for a good product. -
TLR camera
It's a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length. The two objectives are connected, so that the focus shown on the focusing screen will be exactly the same as on the film. -
Kodachrome
It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography. Kodachrome lost its market share, its manufacturing was discontinued in 2009 and its processing ended in December 2010. -
Polaroid
In January 1947it would astonish the world by presenting the first instant photograph: a camera that revealed the image in just 60 seconds. This invention became the flagship of the company until the appearance of digital photography. -
Hasselblad
In 1969 the man did not arrive alone to the Moon, he was accompanied by the Hasselblad. Within the next three years, six expeditions were made and in total thousands of space photographs were achieved and most of them were made with the Hassie EDC, a version of the 500 EL but for astronauts. -
First digital camera
The history of the digital camera began with Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who was thinking about how to use a mosaic photosensor to capture digital images. In 1975, Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor. -
The first SLD digital camera
Digital images were stored on a tethered hard drive and processed for histogram feedback to the user. The system was refined with input from the Associated Press and demonstrated at photokina 1988. This became the first commercial DSLR, launched by Kodak in 1991. -
Samsung Galaxy camera
The Samsung Galaxy Camera is a point-and-shoot camera which is an Android based mobile device.To promote the Galaxy Camera, Samsung released a viral video on their YouTube channel, featuring James Franco demonstrating the camera's features.
