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Camera Obscura
A small room or a box that has a pin-hole opening in one side which light is permitted to enter to form an image on the side or wall opposite of the opening. -
Daguerreotype Camera
A highly detailed image in which you must clean and polish the surface, like a mirror, sensitize the plate in a closed box over iodine, (wait till it turns a yellow-rose color), hold it over mercury until the image finally appeared then if needed to fix the image, the image would be immersed in a sodium thiosulfate or salt solution which afterward you would tone with gold chloride. -
Alexander Wolcott Camera
This was one of the first actual handheld cameras. It still didn't have a lens but the camera had a reflective mirror which would reflect onto the paper producing an image. (except now unlike the last two this was a smaller version) -
The Panoramic Camera
This camera was one of the first cameras able/capable to get a 360-degree picture due to the round lens and openness of the camera. It almost works like clockwork! -
Stereoscope
This camera was able to form and render images that can view them with realistic depth or three-dimensional due to the overlapping of the images in which it simulates a real human eye. -
Roll-Film Camera
The film is usually wound up into a spool like form, using a tight blank paper to protect the film that was wound up. -
The Kodak Brownie Camera (The Brownie)
Brought and introduced the first snapshot. The Brownie shutter opens allowing light to come in, and when the light is reflected and photographed it forms the image, but upside down. -
Reise Camera
So you remember those old cameras your always seeing from back in the day? Well these cameras had foldable things called bellows almost like the thing you see on an air bag, this allowed the camera to focus more easily, plus it was able to tilt as well -
Candid Camera
First still camera with 35mm -
Polaroid Camera
A camera able to take pictures and print them out within a minute. -
UnderWater Camera
Currently invented only for the U.S Navy. -
Autofocus Camera
First of it kind to focus automatically -
Sony Mavica
First electronic, digital still camera. -
Disposable Camera
The useless camera due to only being able to be used once. -
Professional Digital Camera
One of the first actual professional and digital cameras of its time. -
Apple QuickTake 100, Kodak DC40 Camera, Casio QV-11 with LCD Screen and Sony's Cyber-shot Digital Still camera.
The first line of digital cameras with a home computer via cables. -
Camera Phone
The first cellphone with an actual Camera -
Canon EOS 5D
A high-quality camera with many features included.
