THE EVOLUTION OF CAMERA



The history of the camera is a very long one, from Joseph Niepce taking the first photograph to the Kodak roll film camera to the c.d. being used as a digital image storing device.
Below is a detailed table which will take you through the development of the camera.

Date	Event
1814	A Frenchman called Joseph Nicéphore Niépceobtained the first ever photographic image with his “Camera Obscura”. This image was taken by having the shutter left open for eight hours ad faded shortly after.
1837	The French artist Louis Jacques MandéDaguerre took the first fixed image on his Daguerreotype. This image did not fade and took less than thirty minutes of exposure.
1841	William 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.
1843	The first advertisement using a photograph is made in Philadelphia
1851	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.
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.
1880	Eastman dry plate company is founded.
1884	Flexible, paper based photographic film is invented by company “Eastman”.
1888	Eastman has another invention, the Kodak roll film camera.
1900	The turn of the century brought around the first mass marketed camera “the Browning”.
1913-1914	The first 35mm still camera is developed
1927	Electricity company General Electric invents the modern flash bulb which enables the photograph to be brighter or taken in dark areas and seen clearly in the finished picture.
1935	Eastman Kodak starts selling Kodachromefilm on the market
1941	Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolournegative film
1948	Edwin Land markets his invention, the Polaroid camera.
1954	Eastman Kodak develops hi-speed tri-x film.
1960	EG&G produces a camera that can withstand extreme underwater depths for the U.S.navy.
1963	Polaroid releases instant colour film.
1968	The first ever literally “out of this world” photograph is taken. And we receive an image of our planet taken from the moon.
1973	Polaroid develops one step instant colourfilm, shoot and print with one click.
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	Four years later canon demonstrates their next big thing for many years, an electronic still camera.
1985	Pixar releases a digital imaging processor.
1990	Eastman Kodak develops the photo cd as a digital image storing device.

This was the first picture ever taken by a camera:

This is the first Camera it was called a "Camera Obscura":