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1685 BCE
The Evolution of the Camera
In 1685, Johann Zahn, a German author and inventor, designed the first camera that was smaller and more portable than the original camera obscuras, but his ideas didn’t come to life until the 1800s. He made detailed sketches and diagrams for the camera obscura, magic lantern slides, projections, peepshow boxes, microscopes, reflectors, and lenses. -
1000 BCE
The Evolution of the Camera
A Camera Obscura was a dark room with a small hole in the wall. When there was light outside, light would enter through the hole and project an upside-down image of the outside world onto the wall opposite the hole. -
The Evolution of the Camera
The first photograph to ever be seen by the world in a camera was taken with a camera obscura by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. He used a special mixture of bitumen on a pewter plate, naming it Heliography. The photo, titled: "View from the Window at Le Gras," is said to be the world's earliest surviving photograph. -
The Evolution of the camera
Around the 1820s-1839, Louis Daguerre made the first “daguerreotypes” which were photographs made using the salt solution and silver-coated plates. When his assistant died, Alphonse Giroux took over making the first commercially manufactured daguerreotype camera. Years after, scientists and investors improved upon the first camera by lowering the exposure times and making the devices more portable. -
The Evolution of the Camera
Gabriel Lippmann, a physicist and inventor, introduced to the Academy of Sciences that he was able to create a fixed color photograph. He utilized natural colours of light wavelengths instead of using dyes and pigments. -
The Evolution of the Camera
George Eastman Kodak introduced and sold the new commercial Brownie dollar box camera in 1900: the release was supported by an advertising campaign. It worked by shutters on the top which were set by pulling up a string on top of the camera and operating by pushing a button on the side of the camera. After taking a photograph, a key on top of the camera was used to film onto the next frame. -
The Evolution of the Camera
The introduction of instant photographic film, the Polaroid Land Model 95 camera was born which allowed the photograph to be developed inside the camera. -
The Evolution of the Camera
The first digital camera was created by Steve Steve Sasson, an engineer at Kodak, yet it was only fairly developed compared to what we use now. Put together using leftover scattered parts around the Kodak factory except the imaging sensor. It took 0.01-megapixel images shots only in black and white that were saved to a cassette tape. However, it also took 23 seconds to capture a single image. -
The Evolution of the Camera
This is the first professionally made digital camera in digital imaging thus being very profitable. Running a sensor with just 1.3-megapixels to play with, the F3 'equipped with Kodak' was built pretty much completely for photojournalists which made it ahead of its time. -
The Evolution of the Camera
The first electronic camera phone was produced by Asia in the 2000s it could take photos at 110,000-pixel resolution or 0.11-megapixels which is very impressive in that day and age. It allowed you to send your photos to others electronically.