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http://www.technewsdaily.com/390-digital-camera-history-the-evolution-of-the-camera.html 530 million years ago Natures first camera is still around today. It works by focusing light through a lens onto a sensitive retina.
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http://www.technewsdaily.com/390-digital-camera-history-the-evolution-of-the-camera.html When light passed through a small apeture, it projected an inverted image that the artists would then trace
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm Place the images onto a sheet of silver-plated copper. Covered it in iodine,creating a surface sensitive to light. Put the plate in the camera and exposed it for a few minutes. After the image was painted by light, bath the plate in a solution of silver chloride which created a lasting image.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm Henry Fox Talbot sensitized paper to light with a silver salt solution. He then exposed the paper to light. The background became black, and the subject was rendered in gradations of grey. By reversing the light and shadows he created a more detailed picture
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm Frederick Scoff Archer invented this type of photography. Using a viscous solution of collodion, he coated glass with light-sensitive silver salts. Because he used glass the negatives came out more stabled and detailed.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm Patented by Hamilton Smith, a thin sheet of iron was used to provide a base for light-sensitive material, creating a positive image.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm A glass negative plate with a dried gelatin emulsion. Dry plates could be stored for a period of time. Dry processes absorbed light quickly so rapidly that the hand-held camera was now possible.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography_2.htm Blitzlichtpulver or flashlight powder was invented in Germany in 1887 by Adolf Miethe and Johannes Gaedicke.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography_3.htm George Eastman invented the Kodak camera.A wooden, light-tight box with a simple lens and shutter that was factory-filled with film. The photographer pushed a button to produce a negative. Once the film was used up, the photographer mailed the camera with the film still in it to the Kodak factory where the film was removed from the camera, processed, and printed. The camera was then reloaded with film and returned.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm Invented by George Eastman was a film base that was unbreakable, flexible, and could be rolled.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography_3.htm Oskar Barnack took an instrument for taking exposure samples for cinema film and turned it into the world's first 35 mm camera: the 'Ur-Leica'.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography_3.htm The first modern photoflash bulb or flashbulb was invented by Austrian, Paul Vierkotter. Vierkotter used magnesium-coated wire in an evacuated glass globe.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography_3.htm Edwin Herbert Land invented the Polaroid camera. A Polaroid camera had a one-step process for developing and printing photos.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography_3.htm Cameras that peolpe really only use once then throw away
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography_3.htm Canon demonstrated first digital electronic still camera
