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Camera Timeline

  • 1100

    Camera Obscura

    The Camera Obscura was the first kind of camera, where it would use a closed wall with a tiny hole to reflect light inside the box.
  • The first permanent photograph

    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was able to invent photos that do not fade out after an amount of time, which was groundbreaking for the camera as a whole!
  • Lens Focus

    Louis Daguerre was able to use glass over a camera lens to focus in and out, so better images could be made!
  • Dry Plates

    Richard Leach Maddox invented the Gelatin Dry Plate, which took photos way quicker than a normal Collodion Dry Plate.
  • Film

    George Eastman was the inventor of Film, a paper-based photo output for cameras and had quick results!
  • 35 mm

    The 35 mm camera is finally available to the public, and can zoom in and out, and is very compact at that!
  • Period: to

    Production of the Argus C3

    It was meant to compete with the 35 mm cameras at the time, but flopped and had to be discontinued.
  • Instant Cameras

    The Instant Camera used a chemical method to get their photos faster, via exposed negatives.
  • First self-contained digital camera

    Steven Sasson attempted to build one, which took 23 seconds to take an image, filmed in black and white like a cassette, and weighed 8 pounds.
  • True Digital Camera

    MegaVision Tessera was marketed as this, but no actual sale records have ever showed up about it.
  • First Phone Camera

    Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210 was released in Japan with it being the first phone camera, only being able to store about 20 JPEGs however.