Camera Timeline

Camera Obscura (390 BC)

The first camera obscura was made and used in 390 BC. The camera obscura was made by making a room completely black and making a little hole, so the image from outside would come in through this hole. The camera obscura made the image appear upside down.

390 BC

First Ever Permanent Photo (1826)

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first ever permanent photograph.

1826

First Photographic Negative

William Henry Fox Talbot patents the Calotype process, the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies

1834

Cyanotype

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print. This was discovered Sir John Herschel.

1842

First Moving Pictures

The first moving picture camera called the zoopraxiscope or the wheel of life was made by William Lincoln.

1851

First Mass Market Camera

In 1888, George Eastman created the very first mass market camera, which was a Kodak camera. By 1900 it was a mass market camera, formerly known as “The Brownie”

1888-1900

35mm Film