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391 BCE
Camera Obscura
Camera obscura (Latin for "dark room") is the natural phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole in that screen. Before the invention of photographic process there was no way to preserve to the images created by these cameras apart from tracing them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera -
Daguerreotype Camera
Louis Daguerre, a French artist, developed a process to store the projected image by treating a silver-plated sheet of copper with iodine vapor to give it a light sensitive coating of silver iodine. This was the first time an object was made to be light sensitive to capture an image and store it forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera -
Reise Camera
The Reise camera was the world's first truly portable camera. It was manufactured by E. Suter of Basel in Switzerland. It's focusing screen is adjustable for landscape and portrait photos, with it's ability to be folded into a compact shape and being extremely light weight compared to other models. http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=2834& -
Leica I
The Leica was not the first 35mm camera, but it was the first to make 35mm truly viable, leading to the most popular film format ever. The creator was Oskar Barnack. He soon began work on a movie camera, for use with 35mm film. Because emulsion speeds of then current films were unreliable, Barnack built a small device intended to test small batches of movie film. However, what he had actually created was a miniature still camera, known today as the Ur-Leica. http://www.shutterbug.com/ -
Polaroid Model 95
The whole process of taking a photo and developing the final photograph from the negatives was a tedious and time consuming job. A company named Polaroid recognized this problem and decided to compress this whole process into a matter of seconds so Polaroid Model 95 onto the market. With this camera photographers could just take a shot and get the photo printed on a special paper supplied by Polaroid in minutes. http://www.onextrapixel.com/2015/04/22/evolution-of-the-camera/ -
Fuji Quicksnap
The price of cameras were still keeping people out of reach from cameras so Fujifilm, a film and camera making company, created the world's first single use disposable camera http://www.onextrapixel.com/2015/04/22/evolution-of-the-camera/ -
Digital Camera
Digital camera sales continued to flourish, driven by technology advances. The digital market segmented into different categories, Compact Digital Still, Bridge, Mirrorless Compacts and Digital SLR cameras. One of the major technology advances was the development of CMOS sensors, which helped drive sensor costs low enough to enable the widespread adoption of camera phones. Since 2003, digital cameras have outsold film cameras. Smartphones now routinely include high resolution digital cameras.
