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Feb 22, 1500
First Camera
The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham). -
Daguerreotype Camera
The Daguerreotype Camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the world’s most expensive cameras. -
First American patent
The first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. -
Panoramic camera
The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton. -
Roll-film camera.
George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885. His first Kodak box camera was very simple and very cheap. -
First mass-marketed camera
First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s. -
The Raisecamera
The Raisecamera (travel camera) was invented. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when it is folded made this photo camera the most desirable thing for landscape photographers -
Candidcamera
The first 35mm still camera (also called candidcamera ) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras -
Polaroid camera
Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute -
Depth underwater camera
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy -
Autofocus camera
Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin” -
Sony Mavica
Sony demonstrates the Sony Mavica – the world’s first digital electronic still camera. Digital photography and television images are related to the same technology, so this camera recorded images into a mini disk and then put them into a video reader. Images could be displayed to a television monitor or color printer -
Fuji disposable camera
Fuji introduced the disposable camera. The inventors also call this device “single-use cameras” -
Nikon F-3 camera
Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was of a great use for photojournalists. It was a modified Nikon F-3 camera with a 1.3 megapixel sensor -
Kodak DC40 camera
The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony’s Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996). -
Japane Sharp’s J-SH04
In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone
