History of Cameras

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  • The First Pinhole Camera
    May 13, 1500

    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