Video Development Timeline

Events

Eadward Muybridge Photographic Experiment

1882

The Horse in Motion
http://byronwolfe.typepad.com/muybridge/MuybridgeBig.jpg

The "Kodak" camera was developed by George Eastman

1888

http://lowres-picturecabinet.com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/43/main/17/95851.jpg

Thomas Edison invented "kinetograph"

1891

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Kinetophonebis1.jpg

Reflex cameras rise in popularity

1920 - 1930

Polaroid camera was introduced to market

1948

Television as mass medium

1950

Sony marketed "Portapak"

1965

First portable video recording equipment
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First publication of the journal "Radical Software"; Sony introduces 3/4" videocassette

1970

https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090a2h-img/qfhh7c0000090a3f.jpg

Panasonic, JVC, and other non-japanese company follows

Sony introduces 1/2" videocassette

1975

https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090a5r-img/qfhh7c0000090a6p.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090a7e-img/qfhh7c0000090a8c.jpg
SL-7300 & SL-6300 (Betamax)
Followed by other companies i.e. JVC etc..

Steven Sasson of Kodak invented the first digital camera

1975

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/08/11/blogs/20150811-lens-sasson-slide-QS7V/20150811-lens-sasson-slide-QS7V-superJumbo.jpg

Wide availability of VHS recording equipment

1980

VHS - Video Home System
http://playitagainvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/vhs-tapes.jpg

JVC & Sony announced Camera / recorder or "camcorder"

1982

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Subsequent release of video cameras

1985 - 1995

https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090a91-img/qfhh7c0000090a9z.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090aao-img/qfhh7c0000090abm.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090acb-img/qfhh7c0000090ad9.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/8mmCamcorder.jpg/300px-8mmCamcorder.jpg

Kodak launched first commercially available Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) Camera

1991

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Early_digital%21.jpg/220px-Early_digital%21.jpg

Panasonic and Sony brought out the first Digital Video camcorders

1995

https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090auc-img/qfhh7c0000090ava.jpg
DCR-PC7

Subsequent release of Digital video cameras including DSLR

1996 - 2017

https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c0000090az9-img/qfhh7c0000090b07.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/qfhh7c00000b20ef-img/qfhh7c00000b20fg.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/8ido18000004v2jf-img/8ido18000004v2l3.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/8ido18000009nx5h-img/8ido18000009nx75.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/ku7ote00000188xu-img/NEX-7.jpg
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/Capsule/8ido1800000dyzri-img/8ido1800000dyzt6.jpg

Woodman Labs ( later known as GoPro) introduce the first commercially available action camera

2004

Hero 35mm 0001
https://pevly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GoPro-Hero-35-mm-outside-the-waterproof-case.jpg
https://pevly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Nick-Woodman-GoPro-Wrist-Strap-prototype.jpg