THE TIME LINE OF CAMERA
Cameras capture special events and preserve memories. The camera helps to create
and preserve memories of historical or sentimental value. Famous photographs of
notable moments and events from history were made possible by the camera like in
world war 2 in 1940s camera capture General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore
during initial landings at Leyte, Philippine Islands. the camera capture historical
war and camera is a valuable source to preserve history.
A camera obscura is discovered in 4ht century BCE by mozi and Aristotle in 384
BCE. Camera obscura is the first camera that is invented but not so much
functional. abscura is a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side
through which an image is projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole. And in
Near the start of the 16th Century, the amazing artist, scientist, and inventor
Leonardo da Vinci sketched out diagrams and wrote instructions about the camera
obscura. In these papers, he included not just pinholes but also simple glass lenses.
1664-1672 ⇢ Sir Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different
colors by refracting white light off a prism. Our modern understanding of light and
color begins with Isaac Newton
1685 ⇢ The vision of a box form of a Camera that was portable and small was was
envisioned by Johann Zahn, THOUGH it would be nearly 150 years before
technology was able to bring his vision to life.
1717 ⇢ Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon
exposure to light.
1816 ⇢ Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce constructed a wood camera fitted
with a microscope lens. He succeeded in photographing the images formed in a
small camera, but the photographs were negatives- meaning they were darkest
where the camera image was lightest and vice versa.
1826 ⇢ Joseph Nicephore Niepce invented Heliograph, which he used to make the
earliest known permanent photograph from nature, View from the Window at Le
Gra.
View from the Window at Le Gras required an extremely long exposure
(traditionally said to be eight hours, but now believed to be several days) which
resulted in sunlight being visible on both sides of the buildings. The oldest
surviving photograph of the image formed in a camera – View from the Window
at Le Gras.
1837⇢ In collaboration with Joseph Nicephore Niepce– Louis Daguerre invented
the first practical photographic process which was widely used in portraiture until
the mid 1850s.
The image below is one of the world’s first photographic self portraits. It was taken
by Dutch migrant, Robert Cornelius in 1839 outside his family business in
Philadelphia USA. The back of the daguerreotype reads. The first light picture ever
taken.
1861⇢ Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell produced the first color
photograph in 1861.
Maxwell created the image of the tartan ribbon shown here by photographing it
three times through red, blue, and yellow filters, then recombining the images into
one color composite
1878⇢ Eadweard Muybridge successfully captured the sequence of movement. It
was this ground breaking discovery and technique that helped invented motion
pictues.
1884- 1924⇢ The camera went into production at the Leitz factory in Germany. It
was called the Leica from the initials of “Leitz Camera.”
1926⇢ Underwater color photography was born with this shot of a hogfish,
photographed off the Florida Keys in the Gulf of Mexico by Dr. William Longley
and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin
Equipped with cameras encased in waterproof housing and pounds of highly
explosive magnesium flash powder for underwater illumination, the pair pioneered
underwater photography.
1948⇢ An entirely new type of camera is introduced– the Polaroid Model 95. It
was the world’s first viable instant-picture camera. The Model 95 used a patented
chemical process to produce finished positive prints from the exposed negatives in
under a minute.
1949⇢ A historic camera: the Contax S— the first pentaprism SLR for eye-level
viewing.
1975⇢ The first ever digital camera was invented by Steven Sasson, an engineer at
Eastman Kodak.
The 8 pound camera recorded 0.01 megapixel black and white photos to a cassette
tape. The first photograph took 23 seconds to create.
To play back images, data was read from the tape and then displayed on a
television set.
1984⇢ Steve McCurry captured one of the most famous portraits the world had
ever seen.
The Afghan girl with the haunting green eyes captivated everyone. That
captivation proved, once again, the power of photography to open eyes—and
hearts and minds—with a single image.
1994⇢ Foreshadowing the camera phone and Wi-Fi-equipped cameras that
wouldn’t appear until many years later, the 1994 Olympus Deltis VC-1100 model
was the first digital camera with the ability to transmit images over a phone line,
without the intermediary of a computer or other device.
1999⇢ The Kyocera VP-210 introduced a concept that we still use frequently
today– phone photography!
2002⇢ The Casio Exilim EX-S1/EX-M1 leapt forward in the ultracompact design
race with the 0.4-inch-thick EX-S1 “wearable card camera.
2007⇢ The Go Pro Digital Hero 3 is introduced to the market and offers go-
anywhere cams with rugged cases. Now most people who do sports, ride bicycles,
even drive cars have these.
2007⇢ The first ever Apple Iphone is introduced. Though Apple was not the first
to include camera phones– they combined a simple camera interface, intuitive
downloading and sharing tools, and, in 2008, a highly accessible platform for third-
party photo apps– making these incredibly popular
2016⇢ The Canon 5d Mark IV is relased as a whopping 30.1 megapixels full
frame digital single lens-reflex with the ability to shoot video in 4k.
2016⇢ The iphone 7 introduces its latest in camera technology- a camera has a
six-element lens and a 12-megapixel sensor.
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BY MEGHANBRABANT COOPH
