The history of the camera is a very long one, from Joseph Niepce taking the first photogra

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 Niépce
obtained 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 Mandé

Daguerre 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 Kodachrome

film on the market

1941 Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolour

negative 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 colour

film, 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":

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