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THE HISTORY OF THE CAMERA. PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE YEARS. 500 B.C. In 5 th and 4 th century B.C., Chinese and Greek philosophers are able to describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. . 1500 A.D.
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THE HISTORY OF THE CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE YEARS
500 B.C. • In 5th and 4th century B.C., Chinese and Greek philosophers are able to describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
1500 A.D. • The first pinhole camera (also known as the camera obscura) is invented by AlhazenIbnAl-Haytham. He was a Muslim scientist, mathematician and philosopher, and is considered to be the father of modern optics. Alhazen’s camera obscura
1814 • Joseph Niepceachieved the first known photographic image with a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Joseph Niepce’s photograph. It was taken at Saint-Loup-de-Varrenes.
1837 • In 1837 Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype camera. It was the first camera that could take a fixed image that would not fade and needed only 30 minutes of light exposure. This is the design for the daguerreotype camera.
1841 • 1841 William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process; which is the first negative-positive process making it possible to make multiple copies. One of Talbot’s negative-positive photographs.
1859 • The panoramic camera is invented and patented by Thomas Sutton. This camera achieved a panoramic effect by using curved glass plates and a hollow glass lens filled with distilled water giving an angle of 140 degrees. Thomas Sutton’s panoramic camera.
1884-1900 • In 1888,George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1884. His first mass-marketed camera, the Brownie, went on sale in 1900 and continued to be sold until 1960. Two examples of the brownie camera,
1900 • In 1900 the Reise-camera was invented. It was a light, foldable camera that made it easy for photographers to take landscape pictures. Two types of the reise-cameras.
1913 • In 1913 the first 35mm still camera was invented by Oskar Barnack. It became the standard for all film cameras. Oskar Barnack’s 35mm camera.
1927 • In 1927, the General Electric Company invents the modern flash bulb. It had a tremendous light output, nearly 180,000 lumen-seconds, necessary for the rather slow speed captures of the time. Advertisement for the Sashalite flash bulb; GEC’s first commercial flash bulb.
1948 • In 1948, Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute. Edwin Land’s first polaroid camera
1978 • Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera called Konica C35 AF. The Konica C35 AF
1981 • Sony demonstrates the Sony Mavica – the world’s first digital electronic still camera. Images could be displayed to a television monitor or color printer. The Sony Mavica
1986 • Fuji introduced the disposable camera. The inventors also call this device “single-use cameras”. The camera was easily accessible and made photography available to everybody, no matter their wealth The current Fuji disposable camera
1991 • In 1991 Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was of a great use for photojournalists.
1994 • The first digital camera for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable was the Apple QuickTake 100 camera.
2000 • In Japan, Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone
2005 • The Canon EOS 5D is launched, This is the first consumer-priced full frame digital SLR.
2007 • On June 29, 2007, the first Apple iPhone was released. It featured a 2 MP camera. With each new iPhone release, a better and better camera accompanied it
Sources • http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm • http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/ • http://www.myplace.edu.au/TLF_resources/R6388/description.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras