History of cameras

By ChristinaH

  • First large transportable camera

    First large transportable camera
    website First large transportable camera obscura was built by Irish scientist Robert Boyle and his assistant Robert Hooke.

  • first photographic image with camera obscura

    Website Joseph Nicephore Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura. However, the image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded.

  • the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

    William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

  • The first color photograph

    The first color photograph, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon, is shown by James Clerk Maxwell.

  • first easy-to-use camera.

    first easy-to-use camera.
    Kodak n°1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.

  • first film ever made.

    Louis Le Prince makes Roundhay Garden Scene, considered the first film ever made.

  • First analog CCTV cameras installed.

    First analog CCTV cameras installed. German engineer Walter Bruch was responsible for the design and installation of the CCTV cameras.

  • First disposable cardboard camera

    First disposable cardboard camera
    First disposable cardboard camera built by Photo-Pac.

  • First digital camera signals.

    First digital camera signals used in cameras over analog by NASA.

  • First digital camera

    website First digital camera invented by Steven J. Sasson.