HISTORY

OF CAMERAS

B Y 1 8 1 4 J O S E P H N I E P C E A C H I E V E D T H E F I R S T P H O T O G R A P H I C I MA G E

The first pict

ures where ta

ken upon a

plate type su

rface

1837-Louis

Daguerr

e's first

daguerr

eotyp

e - th

e first

imag

e that

was fixe

d

and did not

fade a

nd needed

under thirt

y minutes

of lig

ht exp

osure.

This is

the first

picture

and ca

mera used

to ta

ke it.

Its c

alled

a CAMERA O

BSCURA.

1841William Henry Talbot patented the process of Calotype- which involves the first negative-positive printing process making it possible to make multiple copies of a picture.

The Collodion process is invented by Frederick Scott Archer. This requires only two or three seconds of sunlight exposure for the image to be captured.

1851

1859

The panoramic camera is patented In Sutton.

1871

A man called Richard Leach Maddox invents a gelatin dry plate silver bromide process-negatives are no longer needed to be developed immediately.

Eastman dry plate company is founded. Flexible, paper based photographic film is invented by company “Eastman”. Eastman has another invention, the Kodak roll film camera.

1880 through 1888

1990

The turn of the century brought around the first mass marketed camera “the Browning”.

1913-1914The first 35mm still

camera is developed

Edwin Land markets his invention, the Polaroid camera.

*1948

1978

Konica invents the point and shoot auto focus camera

1980

Sony publicly gives a demonstration of their newest addition to the original camera, the camcorder.

1984

Canon demonstrates their next big thing for many years, an electronic still camera.

1985

Pixar releases a digital imaging processor.

21st century Many different high tech

cameras where made in the

21st century

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POWERPOINT BY: TAYLOR HAYS