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1500
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The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).
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.
1840
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The first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera
1859
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The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton.
1861
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Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
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.
1900
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First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s.
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.
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.
1948
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Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute.
1960
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EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
1978
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Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”.
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.
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.
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).
2000
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In Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.
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.
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.