History of Cameras By Abhijit Dec 9, 1664 Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors. Dec 9, 1727 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. Dec 9, 1794 First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker. Dec 9, 1814 Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded Dec 9, 1837 Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. Dec 9, 1840 First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. Dec 9, 1841 William Henry Talbot patents the Calotypeprocess - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. Dec 9, 1843 First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. Dec 9, 1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure. Dec 9, 1859 Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton. Dec 9, 1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. Dec 9, 1865 Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright. Dec 9, 1871 Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. Dec 9, 1880 Eastman Dry Plate Company founded. Dec 9, 1884 George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. Dec 9, 1888 Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Dec 9, 1914 First 35mm still camera developed. Dec 9, 1935 Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film. Dec 9, 1942 Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography). Dec 9, 1948 Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera. Dec 9, 1954 Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film. Dec 9, 1960 EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy Dec 9, 1963 Polaroid introduces instant color film. Dec 9, 1975 Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the first digital still camera Dec 9, 1978 Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera. Dec 9, 1980 Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder. Dec 9, 1984 Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera. Dec 9, 1985 Pixar introduces digital imaging processor. Dec 9, 1990 Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium. Dec 9, 1991 Kodak released the first commercially available fully digital SLR, the Kodak DCS-100 Jan 9, 2000 Fujifilm announced the FinePix S1 Pro, the first consumer-level DSLR. Nov 9, 2001 Canon released its 4.1 megapixel EOS-1D, the brand's first professional digital body Dec 9, 2003 Canon introduced the 6.3 megapixel EOS 300D SLR camera Dec 9, 2004 Konica Minolta released Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D, first DSLR with in-body image stabilization Dec 9, 2009 Nikon released D90, first DSLR to feature video recording