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First Portable CameraThe box form of Camera Obscura shown at the right was invented by Johann Zahn.
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Kodak and Birth of FilmKodak was the first camera to have film, was pre-loaded with 100 exposures. The Kodak was made by George Eastman. Film also began the birth of the movies or "Moving Pictures".
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Oskar Barnack made his first prototype (which ended selling well) in 1913. This camera was meant to make high quality enlargements. It was called the Leica 1.
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Kodak exposed to the market called Retina 1 in 1934. The first to have 135 cartridge used in all modern 35 mm cameras. Inexpensive.
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the Polaroid Model 95, the world's first viable instant-picture camera. Known as a Land Camera after its inventor, Edwin Land, the Model 95 used a patented chemical process to produce finished positive prints from the exposed negatives in under a minute.
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Asahi Optical Company (which later became well known for its Pentax cameras) introduced the first Japanese SLR using 135 film, the Asahiflex.
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The first Polaroid camera aimed at the popular market, the Model 20 Swinger of 1965, was a huge success and remains one of the top-selling cameras of all time.
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The Sony Mavrica is an analog camera, it was the first camera that could take pictures and take video.
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The first commercially available portable digital camera in the United States was the Dycam Model 1, first shipped in November 1990
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Kodak brought to market the Kodak DCS-100, the beginning of a long line of professional Kodak DCS SLR cameras
