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.