When was the first still camera invented?

Answer 1

This is a hard one. While half-plate and quarter-plate SLRs are as old as Photography, they were heavy and complex and with the single-shot technology of the time offered no real advantages over contemporary view cameras.

The first commercially successful SLRs were probably the 1930s VP Exaktas, which gave 10 shots on a 127 roll.

The first 35mm SLR was the 1936 Kine-Exacta, a VP model (made by Ihagee in Dresden, Germany) scaled down to take 35mm film, although the Soviet, 'Sport,' was introduced at roughly the same time.

Ihagee of Dresden certainly invented the 35mm SLR from which all modern types are descended.

Answer 2

Most consumers are accustomed to the point and shoot camera which is a camera that does all the work for you and all you have to do is press the shutter release button. The first of these cameras was invented in 1978.

Answer 3

In 1861, Thomas Sutton got the first patent for an SLR camera. His camera used fairly large (by today's standards) glass film plates. The mirror had to be manually raised before taking the picture. The first practical 35mm SLR's were introduced in the 1930's.

Answer 4

The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in approximately 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce using a very small camera of his own making and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light.

No means of removing the remaining unaffected silver chloride was known to Niépce, so the photograph was not permanent, eventually becoming entirely darkened by the overall exposure to light necessary for viewing it.

Later, in 1826, he used a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris, France. He made his first permanent camera photograph in 1826 by coating a pewter plate with bitumen and exposing the plate in this camera. The bitumen hardened where light struck. The unhardened areas were then dissolved away. This photograph still survives.

Prior to that, 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.

The camera obscura did not create a photo on a fixed medium.

Answer 5

The first recorded digital cameras were used by NASA in the 1960s to take pictures of the moon.

The first consumer digital camera were made in 1994 by Apple. In in 1995 Kodak and Casio released their own digital cameras and Sony followed suit in 1996.

Answer 6

1861