Evolution of the camera

  • Camera Obscura

    Camera Obscura
    Photographic cameras were a development of the camera Obscura. The camera Obscura was used to create drawings with perfect perspective and accurate detail by using a camera the size of a whole room.
  • Period: to

    Timespan beginning from the first camera and ending at the modern day camera

  • Daguerreotype

    Daguerreotype
    "The Daguerreotype made pictures by direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative".
  • Dry plates

    Dry plates
    Dry plates was the first small camera that could be hand-held while taking the picture.
  • Kodak

    Kodak
    the Kodak, showed in this picture, is the first camera to contain film.
  • 35 mm

    35 mm
    This 35mm camera is the first camera to use the film 35mm and has become smaller and much more portable.
  • Polaroid Model 95

    Polaroid Model 95
    This is the first polaroid camera model created
  • SLR

    SLR
    this is a post war camera with the first eye-level viewfinder invented around 1950's.
  • compact camera

    compact camera
    This "compact camera" is the first point-and-shoot camera. This was developed from 1980's -1990's.
  • Smart phone

    Smart phone
    This is the current/modern day "camera". This is called a smart phone. This contains all the technology that has been being developed for years starting from the first camera, camera Obscura, going on to daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras.