Evolution of photography with cameras timeline

The camera obscura was a small portable box. It was equipped with a lens and a mirror at a 45-degree angle, which reflected the image upward and focused it on a viewing screen. There was not yet a way to capture directly and permanently the camera obscura’s images. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/photography/276410

"The first properly usable and commercially successful screen process—the autochrome—was invented early in the 20th century by two French brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière. "In 1904 they gave the first presentation of their process to the French Academy of Science, and by 1907 they had begun to produce autochrome plates com" https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/history-colour-photography#when-was-colour-first-added-to-photographs

"One of the revolutionary cameras that made that color possible—technically known as the DF-24 Beam Splitter Motion Picture Camera—can be seen in the "Places of Invention" exhibition in the Lemelson Center on the first floor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C."

"At a time when cameras were mostly clunky, weighty affairs, the CIA’s Office of Research and Development created one small enough and light enough to be strapped to the breast of a pigeon. Ubiquitous and nondescript, the urban birds made excellent carriers for spygear" https://www.history.com/articles/pigeon-cameras-and-other-cia-cold-war-spy-gear

"In 1989, Mr. Sasson and a colleague, Robert Hills, created the first modern digital single-lens reflex (S.L.R.) camera that looks and functions like today’s professional models. It had a 1.2 megapixel sensor, and used image compression and memory cards." https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/kodaks-first-digital-moment/

"It is difficult to study albatross because they fly hundreds of kilometers across open ocean, flying faster than a boat can sail, to find food.
"The new study addressed this problem by using miniature digital cameras attached to the backs of four birds breeding at colonies on Bird Island, South Georgia in the Southern Ocean."
"The camera is small, weighing about 82 grams." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/tiny-cameras-show-albatrosses-on-the-hunt-18043176/

"EyeVision 360 uses 36 cameras capable of giving viewers a 360-degree view of the action. Instant replays will be able to “freeze” a play and examine it from all sides before returning to the action."
This "freeze" feature acts as a photograph that is able to take a picture from any angle of the game. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/360-degree-cameras-and-other-cool-new-tech-super-bowl-50-180958039/

"A group of researchers has been working on a way to model the mantis shrimp’s compound eyes and polarized vision to create a camera that can detect various forms of cancer. They now have a proof-of-concept camera sensor that is smaller, simpler and more precise than previous attempts at polarized imaging." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/mantis-shrimp-inspires-a-new-camera-for-detecting-cancer-180952927/

"A camera phone is a mobile phone that is able to capture photographs using one or more built-in digital cameras. It can also send the resulting image wirelessly and conveniently. The first commercial phone with a color camera was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, released in Japan in May 1999.[1] While cameras in mobile phones used to be supplementary, they have been a major selling point of mobile phones since the 2010s" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_phone