The history of the camera

By brianna.paige
  • Jan 1, 1544

    The Pinhole camera

    The Pinhole camera
    The first pinhole camera was discovered in the 1500`s (month and day is unknown). The camera is described as being a enclosed box with a tiny hole placed on the side. When light is allowed through the tiny hole, an image or object outside of the hole is projected through the other side of the box. Pictures from the pinhole camera come out much softer because the outines are not as sharp.

  • The Daguerreotype camera

    The Daguerreotype camera
    In the 1830`s (date and month is unknown) Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce discover that a copper plate coated in silver iodide and pressed with a solution would make the image permanment. This camera was great for taking potraits.

  • The stereoscope viewer

    The stereoscope viewer
    In the 1860`s (day and month is unknown) Oliver Wenedell invented the camera known as the Stereoscope. The stereoscope is almost like 3D entertainment http://www.collectorsweekly.com/photographs/stereoviews

  • The raisecamera

    The raisecamera
    This camera was invented in the 1900`s (day and month are unknown) by an unknown inventer. The camera could fold up and expand to the photographers desire. Many loved it for taking landscape photo because it gave a 360* and 20 feet in length photo.
    http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1009029/edit

  • The first "still" camera

    The first "still" camera
    The first still camera was invented by Oskar Barnack. It later became the standard for all film cameras.

  • The polaroid

    The polaroid
    Edwin Land invented the camera that could print images in under a minute. This metal contraction is built with film already inside. so in a snap of a photo your picture was developed.

  • The first digital camera

    The first digital camera
    A company named "Konica" introduced the first digital camera called the "Jasupin" This camera ran off of 16 nickel baterries and CCD image ray. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/bits-pics-kodaks-1975-model-digital-camera/?_r=1

  • The first still digital camera

    The first still digital camera
    This camera can record videos and save them to a disk inside. This camera is almost the same as television images. Your images can viewed on a television monitor or color printer. (not actual day or month)

  • The first professional digital camera

    The first professional digital camera
    It was great for photojournalist, it was an innovation of the Nikon F-3 camera but now improved with with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.
    (not actual day or month)

  • First digital camera to work from a home computer

    First digital camera to work from a home computer
    Apple QuickTake 100 camera was the first camera to be used from a home computer. After a year of this first release multiples were innovated.

  • First camera phone

    First camera phone
    The first camera phone called J-SH04 was invented by The sharp corporation. The first camera phone was only avaiable in Japan.
    (correct month and year, unknown day) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-SH04

  • First full frame camera

    First full frame camera
    This camera provides higher - definition, and higher development. it provided everything people wanted to have in a camera, such as, full-frame sensor that did not have crop factor. People were not impressed with the newer version and still perferred landscape cameras, but with the lower price and light weight people thought it was a better innovation.