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The History of Camera

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  • First Portable Camera

    First Portable Camera
    First Portable CameraThe box form of Camera Obscura shown at the right was invented by Johann Zahn.

  • The First Camera With Film

    The First Camera With Film
    Kodak and Birth of FilmKodak was the first camera to have film, was pre-loaded with 100 exposures. The Kodak was made by George Eastman. Film also began the birth of the movies or "Moving Pictures".

  • The First Compact Camera

    The First Compact Camera
    Oskar Barnack made his first prototype (which ended selling well) in 1913. This camera was meant to make high quality enlargements. It was called the Leica 1.

  • Kodaks New Camera

    Kodaks New Camera
    Kodak exposed to the market called Retina 1 in 1934. The first to have 135 cartridge used in all modern 35 mm cameras. Inexpensive.

  • Instant Camera

    Instant Camera
    the Polaroid Model 95, the world's first viable instant-picture camera. Known as a Land Camera after its inventor, Edwin Land, the Model 95 used a patented chemical process to produce finished positive prints from the exposed negatives in under a minute.

  • Japanese Camera

    Japanese Camera
    Asahi Optical Company (which later became well known for its Pentax cameras) introduced the first Japanese SLR using 135 film, the Asahiflex.

  • The First Polaroid Camera

    The first Polaroid camera aimed at the popular market, the Model 20 Swinger of 1965, was a huge success and remains one of the top-selling cameras of all time.

  • First Handheld Electic Camera

    The Sony Mavrica is an analog camera, it was the first camera that could take pictures and take video.

  • First Digital Camra Comercially Sold In The US

    The first commercially available portable digital camera in the United States was the Dycam Model 1, first shipped in November 1990

  • Kodak DCS-100

    Kodak brought to market the Kodak DCS-100, the beginning of a long line of professional Kodak DCS SLR cameras