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Camera History
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The Invention of the Camera Obscura Otherwise known as the "Pinhole Camera"
1000 AD
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Invented by Alhazen Ibn-Al-Haytham a who was able to explain why the picture was upside down.
Issac Newton discovers light is made out of diffferent colours.
1664 - 1666
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Achieving first photograph
1814
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Joseph Niepce invents fist photographic image but needed 8 hours of exposure and later faded
Daguerreotypes
1837
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Louise Daguerre invents the first fixed image that did not fade and only required 30 min. of exposure.
Panoramic
1859
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The Sutton Panoramic camera was patented
Gelatin dry
1871
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Richard Leach Maddox invents the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process, negatives dont need to be developed immediately.
Flexible Film
1884
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George Eastman invent flexible paper based film for cameras.
Mass Market Camera
1900
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The Brownie bacomes the first mass marketed camera.
35mm
1913 - 1914
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The first ever 35 mm camera is developed
Chester Carlson
1942
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Chester Carlson gets the patent for the first electric photography
Colour film
1963
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Polaroid introduces first colour film
Moon Picture
1968
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First picture of the earth from the moon
Camcorder
1987
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sony invents the first consumer camera
Eastman Kodak
1990
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Announces photo cd as a digital image storage medium
camera phone
2000
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Japan introduces the first camera phone.
No more cameras
2004
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Kodak stops production of film cameras
New Camera
2005
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Canon EOS 5D, first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR, with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor for $3000;