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1000 BCE
Creation of the Pinhole Camera
Ibn al-Haytham invented the pinhole camera around 1000AD. The pinhole camera is also called the camera obscura. The pinhole camera is a dark room or tent with a hole in the wall. The hole would project whatever was outside into the tent or room, but the image would be upside down. The image would be clearer depending on how much light was on the image being projected and how much light was in the room. The less light in the room compared to the light outside made the image clearer. -
First Photograph
The first partially successful photograph using a camera was made in about 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce -
First Photographic Procedure
After Niépce's death his partner Louis Daguerre continued to experiment and by 1837 had created the first practical photographic process, which he named the daguerreotype. -
Second Photographic Procedure
Henry Fox Talbot perfected a different process, the calotype, in 1840 -
The Modern Camera
George Eastman's first camera, which he called the "Kodak," was offered for sale in 1888. -
The Kodak
George Eastman started manufacturing film paper in 1885 before switching to celluloid. His first camera, which he called the "Kodak," was first up for sale in 1888. -
The Brownie
In 1900, Eastman took photography one step further with the Brownie, a simple and very inexpensive box camera that introduced the idea of the snapshot. -
The First Reflex Camera
The first practical reflex camera was the Franke & Heidecke Rolleiflex medium format TLR of 1928 -
First Instant- Picture Camera
In 1948, an entirely new type of camera appeared on the market, This was the Polaroid Model 95, the world's first instant-picture camera. Also known as a Land Camera after its inventor, Edwin Land -