TimeLine of the camera
Camera Obscura 1500 Daguerreotype Camera 1839 Alexander Wolcott 1840 The panoramic camera 1859 Kodak roll-film camera 1888 The Kodak Brownie Camera 1900
A camera obscura The camera used a The camera This Original Kodak
Daguerreotype was The Brownie was
is a darkened room concave mirror to featured a swing camera, introduced by
the first publicly a series of
with a small hole or focus the available lens and operated George Eastman,
available cameras made by
lens at one side light onto a by a handle and placed the power of
photographic Eastman Kodak.
through which an photosensitive gears. photography in the
process; it was Released in 1900,
image is projected plate hands of anyone who
widely used during it introduced the
onto a wall or table could press a button.
the 1840s and snapshot to the
opposite the hole. Unlike earlier cameras
1850s. masses. It was a
that used a glass-plate basic cardboard
negative for each box camera with a
exposure, the Kodak simple convex-
came preloaded with a concave lens that
100-exposure roll of took 2 1/4-inch
flexible film.. square pictures
on 117 roll film.
TimeLine of the camera
Candid camera 1913 Polaroid camera 1948 Konica C35 AF 1978 Sony Mavica 1981
Oskar Barnack, a When Land started The camera Sony Introduces
development the company in the had 35mm the Sony Mavica,
engineer for 1930s Kodak bought Autofocus & the First
Leitz, first created his first product — Auto exposure Commercial
his compact the polarizing filter. compact Electronic
35mm in 1913 in And for most of the camera. Camera--Not
order to use ’50s and ’60s, it Digital. The first
35mm film for manufactured Sony Mavica had
still photography negatives that the peculiar
rather than Polaroid used in its distinction of
motion picture film packs. Land being the first still
photography. would show off video camera.
products to Kodak
engineer.