History of Cameras

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  • May 13, 1500

    The First Pinhole Camera

    The First Pinhole Camera
    The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham). Click here to go to link

  • The Daguerreotype Camera

    The Daguerreotype Camera
    The Daguerreotype Camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the world’s most expensive cameras. Click here to go to link

  • Stereoscope Viewer

    Stereoscope Viewer
    Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. Click here to go to link

  • Polaroid Camera

    Polaroid Camera
    Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute. click here to go to link

  • The Panoramic Camera

    The Panoramic Camera
    The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton. click here to go to link

  • First point-and-shoot

    First point-and-shoot
    Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”. click here to go to link

  • Analog electronic camera

    Analog electronic camera
    Recorded pixel signals continuously, as videotape machines did. click here to go to link

  • World's first camera phone

    World's first camera phone
    In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone. click here to go to link

  • Full Frame Camera

    Full Frame Camera
    The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor. click here to go to link

  • The Candid Camera

    The Candid Camera
    The first 35mm still camera (candid camera) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. click here to go to link