Evolution of the Camera

By 21banovics
  • 400 BCE

    Camera Obscura : 350 - 400 BC

    Camera Obscura : 350 - 400 BC
    Chinese and Greek philosophers noticed that when you put a light through a pinhole it projected images. Over the years philosophers around the world improved the pinhole camera. It only projected images and did not take pictures.

  • First Picture

    First Picture
    Joseph Niepce used the Camera Obscura to take the first picture. Knowing that it changes colour when exposed to light he 'silver nitrate' to take it. It took 8 hours to develop.

  • Daguerreotype Camera

    Daguerreotype Camera
    Building off of Joseph Niepce's idea, Louis Daguerre invented the Daguerreotype Camera. Using light exposure, it could develop an image 30 minutes.

  • Wet Collodion Process

    Wet Collodion Process
    Frederick Scott Archer invented a way for a picture to be developed in seconds by creating a way for glass negatives to be developed.

  • The First Polaroid Camera

    The First Polaroid Camera
    Edwin Herbert released the first polaroid camera. It was able to produce the photo in a minute and it printed from the camera itself.

  • Polacolour

    Polacolour
    The first colored film Polaroid camera was released.

  • First Digital Camera

    First Digital Camera
    Steven Sasson created the first digital camera. It only took pictures in black and white. It took about 20 seconds take a picture, saving each on a cassette tape.

  • First Disposable Camera - Quick Snap

    First Disposable Camera - Quick Snap
    Fuji-film released the first disposable camera.

  • Professional Digital Camera

    Professional Digital Camera
    The professional digital camera was made when Kodak and Nikon produced a camera system pairing Nikon bodies and Kodak digital sensors in place of a film.

  • First Phone with Camera.

    First Phone with Camera.
    Samsung released the first cell phone with a camera in 2000. It was made in Japan. You could take pictures on the phone and access the photos by connecting your phone to a computer.

  • The iPhone Camera

    The iPhone Camera
    The first iPhone was released June 29, 2007. Over time the camera quality has improved drastically since then. So far there have been 18 models of the iphone.