16th century.
17th century: a typical camera obscura,incorporating a mirror which reflects the image from the lens,onto a glass plate.holds a sheet of paper on which the image is being traced,the double interlocking box enables precise focusing.
the first picture to be taken in space.1946
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16th century:brightness and clarity of camera obscuras improved ny enlarging the hole inserting a telescope lens.
17th century:Camera obscura frequently used by artists and made portable. 1800 ;Thomas Wedgewood made 'sun pictures"by placing a opaque objects on leather treated with silver resulted images to darken rathen than the shadows if displayed under light stronger than candles. 1800s:French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce uses a camera obscura
to burn a permanent image of the country side. at his Le Gras, France, estate onto a chemical-coated pewter plate. He names it "heliography" which means sun drawing,The black-and-white exposure takes eight hours and fades significantly, but an image is still visible on the plate today. Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell creates a rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue. His photo of a multicolored ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three-color method 1926: First Underwater Color Photo
Ichthyologist William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin use an Autochrome camera and a raft full of explosive magnesium flash powder to illuminate the shallows of Florida's Dry Tortugas and make the first undersea color photographs. |
1991: First Digital Still Camera
Kodak releases the first commercially available, professional digital camera in 1991. This device, extremely expensive and marketed to professional photographers, uses a Nikon F-3 camera body fitted with a digital sensor. Over the next five years, several companies come out with more affordable models, and today, the market is overwhelmed with thousands of digital still camera models. |
present day:
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2000 -J -phone introduced only availabe in Japan,
Japan's first ever phone with a built-in camera (110,000-pixel CMOS) and color display (256-color display). 2001-Polaroid goes Bankrupt. 2003-Canon rebel introduced for less than $1000 . 2004-Kodak Ceases film cameras 2005-Canon EOS 5D first consumer, -priced full frame digital SLR for $3000 |
History of cameras.
History of Cameras