Photographic cameras were a development of the camera Obscura, a device
dating back to the ancient Chinese And ancient Greeks, Which uses a pinhole or lens to project an image of the
scene outside, upside-down onto a viewing surface.
On 24 January 1544 mathematician and instrument maker Reiners Gemma Frisius
of Leuven University used one to watch a solar eclipse, publishing a diagram of
his method in De Radio
Astronomical et Geometrico in the following year. In 1558 Giovanni Batista Della Porta was the first to recommend the method as an aid to drawing.
Astronomical et Geometrico in the following year. In 1558 Giovanni Batista Della Porta was the first to recommend the method as an aid to drawing.
Before the invention of photographic processes there was no way to preserve
the images produced by these cameras apart from manually tracing them. The
earliest cameras were room-sized, with space for one or more people inside;
these gradually evolved into more and more compact models such as that by
Niépce's time portable handheld cameras suitable for photography were readily
available. The first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical
for photography was envisioned by Johann Zahn in 1685, though it would be
almost 150 years before such an application was possible.
World first photographic
An artist using an 18th-century camera Obscura to trace an image
Daguerreotype camera built by La Maison Susse Frères in 1839, with a lens by Charles Chevalier
19th century studio camera
Kodak No. 2 Brownie box camera, circa 1910
Leica I, 1925
Argus C3, 1939
A historic camera: the Contax S of 1949 — the first pentaprism SLR
Asahiflex IIb, 1954
Nikon F of 1959 — the first Japanese system camera
Polaroid Model J66, 1961
Sony Mavica, 1981
Canon RC-701, 1986
Nikon D1, 1999
The first portable digital SLR camera, introduced by Minolta in 1995.
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