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500 BCE
Chinese and Greek philosophers
describe the basic principals of optics and the camera. -
400 BCE
The Greek philosopher Aristoteles
discussed pinhole image formation in his work. -
1021
Camera Obscura
The invention of the camera obscura is attributed to the Iraqi scientist Alhazen and described in his book of optics. -
Sir Isaac Newton
discovers that white light is composed of different colours by refracting white light off a prism. -
Johann Zahn
envisioned the vision of a box form of a Camera that was portable and small. -
Johann Heinrich Schulze
discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. -
Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce
constructed a wood camera fitted with a microscope lens. -
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
invented Heliograph, which he used to make the earliest known permanent photograph from nature, View from the Window at Le Gra. -
Louis Daguerre
invented the first practical photographic process, which was widely used in portraiture until the mid 1850s. -
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell
produced the first color photograph. -
Dr. Richard Maddox
discovered a method of using gelatin instead of glass as the plate material for the light-sensitive solution. -
Eadweard Muybridge
captured the sequence of movement. -
George Eastman
introduced celluloid based film in and the small portable easy-to-use box camera. -
The camera
went into production at the Leitz factory in Germany. -
The major step forward
to mass marketing of the TLR (twin-lens reflex) came with the Rolliecord and then rollieflex, developed by Franke & Heidecke in Germany. -
The Polaroid Model 95
was the world's first viable instant-picture camera. The Model 95 used a patented chemical process to produce finished positive prints from the exposed negatives in under a minute. -
The nikon f
was the first Japanese system camera with interchangeable components that constitutes the core of a system. -
The first ever digital camera
was invented by Steven Sasson. -
The Kyocera VP-210
introduced a concept that we still use frequently today– phone photography! -
The Canon EOS 5D
had the popular new market category all to itself until 2008, when Nikon and Sony released their D700 and Alpha 900. -
The Go Pro Digital Hero 3
is introduced to the market and offers go-anywhere cams with rugged cases. Now most people who do sports, ride bicycles, even drive cars have these. -
The first ever Apple Iphone
is introduced. Though Apple was not the first to include camera phones– they combined a simple camera interface, intuitive downloading and sharing tools. -
The Canon 5d Mark IV
is released as a whopping 30.1 megapixels full frame digital single lens-reflex with the ability to shoot video in 4k. -
The IPhone 7
introduces its latest in camera technology- a camera has a six-element lens and a 12-megapixel sensor.
