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The first pinhole camera was invented in 1000-1600. This is the simplist camera because it doesn't have a lens but a small hole that is lifeproof. It was invented by Alhazen.
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The discovery that silver nitrate changes Johann Heinrich Schulz discovered that a substance called silver nitrate would change color when exposed to light. This paved the way for the first pictures to be taken and processed.
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In 1816 the first black white camera was invented by an inventor was Nicéphore Niépce. They used a paper coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light.
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Making multiple copies possible William Henry Talbot developed the Calotype process. This made it possible to make multiple copies of the same picture.
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The first color camera was invented in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell. It uses three separate black-and-white photographs taken and projected through red, green and blue color filters.
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Invention of the roll film camera by George Eastman. He was issued an 1881 patent for a roll film holder which he licensed to George Eastman (it was used in Eastman's Kodak 1888 box camera). Houston sold the patent (and an 1886 revision) outright to Eastman for $5000 in 1889.
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In 1907 the first color photography was invented by the French Lumière brothers. They made the first screen from a camera out of potato grains which are too small to be seen.
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EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
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The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.
