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The History of the Camera
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The Matriarch
1500
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The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).
A Relic
1839
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The Daguerreotype Camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the world’s most expensive cameras.
The first American Patent
1840
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The first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera
The First Panoramic Camera
1859
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The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton.
Improvement of Photogenic Techniques
1861
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Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
The Beginning of the Kodak Empie
1888
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1888
George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885. His first "Kodak" box camera was very simple and very cheap.
First mass-marketed camera
1900
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First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s.
Say 'X'!
1900
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The Raisecamera (travel camera) was invented. Extreme light weight and small dimensions when it is folded made this photo camera the most desirable thing for landscape photographers.
The first portable camera
1914
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The first 35mm still camera (also called 'candid' camera ) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras.
The first "quickie"
1948
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Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute.
The First extreme depth underwater camera is born
1960
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EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
The first point-and-shoot
1978
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Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”.
The First Digital Camera
1981
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Sony demonstrates the Sony Mavica – the world’s first digital electronic still camera. Digital photography and television images are related to the same technology, so this camera recorded images into a mini disk and then put them into a video reader. Images could be displayed to a television monitor or color printer.
The first professional digital camera system
1991
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Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was of a great use for photojournalists. It was a modified Nikon F-3 camera with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.
The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market
1995
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The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony’s Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).
The 'Selfie' Empire begins ... or nearly there
2000
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In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.
Hightech cameras reaches common consumers
2005
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The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.
The Era of Selfies
2007
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For some weird reason, someone at Japan’s Sharp Corporation decided to make a cell phone with a camera built in. Despite its seeming randomness, this combination worked well. These days, it’s hard to imagine a cell phone without a camera. They’re everywhere.