History of camcorders

By: Cason Hardy

1500

• First Pinhole was invented by Alhazen

1839

Daguerreotype Camera was shown by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these is now known as the world’s most expensive camera

1840

• Alexander Wolcott got the first American patent for photography for his camera.

1859

• Panoramic camera which was patented by Thomas Sutton

1861

• Stereoscope viewer is invented by Oliver Wendall

1888

• A roll-film camera is patented by the name of Kodak roll-film camera. It was the Kodak box camera and very cheap and simple.

1900

• The Brownie was the first mass-marketed camera

• The travel camera is invented because it was light weight and more compact then the other cameras when folded up

1913/1914

• The first 35mm camera is made and became the standard for every film camera

1948

• The Polaroid is invented and can take a picture and print the picture in a minute

1960

• EG&G develops extreme depth camera for U.S. Navy

1978

• The first point and shoot camera id invented

1981

• Sony shows the first digital camera

1986

• Disposable camera is made and introduced

1991

• Kodak makes the first professional digital camera

1994-1996

• The first digital camera for the consumer level of people was made by Apple and could be plugged into a computer via cable.

2000

• The first camera phone is introduced

2005

• The first consumer level of pricing full frame digital camera is made

Whoa it’s the End