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The first portable camera
Johann Zahn created the first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography, though it would be almost 150 years before such an application was possible. -
The First Successful Photograph
Nicéphore Niépce used a very small camera of his own making and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light. No means of removing the remaining unaffected silver chloride was known to Niépce, so the photograph was not permanent, eventually becoming entirely darkened by the overall exposure to light necessary for viewing it. -
The first Patented Camera
Alexander Wolcott had patented his own camera, the 'Daguerreotype Mirror Camera', which did not have any lens in it, making it the first patented camera ever. -
The Collodion Dry Plate
Désiré van Monckhoven created the first Collodion Dry Plate. It is a glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide. It can be stored until exposure, and after exposure it can be brought back to a darkroom for development at leisure. -
Birth of Kodak
George Eastman's first camera 'Kodak' was first offered for sale in 1888.It is a It was a very simple box camera with a fixed-focus lens and single shutter speed, which along with its relatively low price appealed to the average consumer. -
Brownie's creatiion
Eastman Kodak took photography one step further and made the 'Brownie', a simple and very inexpensive box camera that introduced the concept of the snapshot. -
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The using of 35mm film cameras
Oskar Barnack investigated using 35 mm cine film for still cameras while attempting to build a compact camera capable of making high-quality enlargements. Many companies like Leitz, Kodak and Canon made cameras that used 35mm flim. A number of manufacturers started to use 35mm films from 1905 and 1913. -
TLR Cameras
The first practical reflex camera was the Franke & Heidecke Rolleiflex medium format TLR of 1928. Both single and twin lens reflex cameras were available for years, but they were too bulky. The Rolleiflex, however, was sufficiently compact and receive alot of popularity. -
SLR Cameras
A similar innovation as the TLR happened to the SLR camera with the introduction of the Ihagee Exakta, a compact SLR which used 127 rollfilm. After that, it was followed by other companies who made SLR cameras like the Kine Exakta, Contaflex, Contax S, Asahiflex, and many others. -
Instant Cameras
While typical cameras were becoming more classy, an new type of camera appeared on the market in 1948. It was the Polaroid Model 95, the world's first viable instant-picture camera. It used a patented chemical process to produce finished positive prints from the exposed negatives in under a minute. The Polaroid lineup had expanded to dozens of models by the 1960s. The polaroid was a huge success and remains one of the top-selling cameras of all time. -
The First Digital Camera
The first attempt at building a digital camera was in 1975 by Steven Sasson. The camera weighed 3.6 kg, recorded black and white images to a compact cassette tape, had a resolution of 10,000 pixels, and took 23 seconds to capture its first image. -
Analog Electrical Cameras
An analog electrical camera was a device that was portable and used like a handheld film camera. It recorded pixel signals continuously, as videotape machines did, without converting them to discrete levels; it recorded television-like signals to a 2 × 2 inch "video floppy". In essence it was a video movie camera that recorded single frames, 50 per disk in field mode and 25 per disk in frame mode. It did not make it to the market until 1986. -
Nowadays DIgital Cameras
Digital camera sales continued, driven by technology advances. The digital market segmented into different categories, Compact Digital Still Cameras, Bridge Cameras, Mirrorless Compacts and Digital SLRs. 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.
