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Pinhole Camera
Between 1000 and 1600, men such as Ibn al-Haytham, Gemma Frisius, and Giambattista della Porta wrote on the pinhole camera, explaining why the images are upside down. Around 1600, Giambattista della Porta added a lens to the pinhole camera. -
Black and White Photographer
The back reads, "The first light picture ever taken." One of the oldest photographic portraits known, made by Joseph Draper of New York, in 1839 or 1840, of his sister, Anna Katherine Draper. The oldest surviving permanent photograph of the image formed in a camera was created by Niépce in 1826 or 1827 -
FIrst Camera
The first camera invented was made by Alexander Wolcott. His camera design was patented on May 8, 1840. His invention made it possible for candid photos to be taken and not fade away with time. Mr. Wolcott also has the distinction of opening the earliest photography shop (known as a daguerran parlor) in New York. -
First Colored Photograph taken with a Colored Camera
The first color photograph made by the three-color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855, taken in 1861 by Thomas Sutton. The subject is a colored ribbon, usually described as a tartan ribbon. -
HD Camera Invention
High-definition video is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition. While there is no standardized meaning for high-definition, generally any video image with considerably more than 480 horizontal lines (North America) or 576 horizontal lines (Europe) is considered high-definition. 480 scan lines is generally the minimum even though the majority of systems greatly exceed that. Images of standard resolution captured at rates faster than normal (60 frames/second North America -
First Phone Camera
Only 2,000 of the devices, which weighed less than 0.5 kilograms, were made. Cellphone cameras. In 2002, the first phones with built-in cameras became publicly available, including the Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300.
