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Join GroupKodak stops making film cameras.
The first mobile phone with a built-in camera is introduced.
Numerous manufacturers went to work on cameras that stored images electronically, resulting in the first point-and-shoot cameras.
George Land invents the Land Camera, the world’s first instant-picture, nodevelopment-needed camera.
Henry Luce’s “Life” becomes the first all-photographic magazine to appear on newsstands
Eastman introduces Kodachrome, the first and arguably best color transparency film.
The Leica I becomes the first practical and commercially successful 35 mm camera, a favorite of photojournalists.
The Wright Brothers invent the airplane, which revolutionizes aerial photography, making it a significant tool for the military.
The first mass-marketed camera goes on sale and the public goes wild.
In 1884, George Eastman invents the first flexible photographic film. He follows this up with another first in 1888, when he patents the Kodak roll-film camera.
William Henry Fox Talbot patents the Calotype process, the first negative-positive process which makes it possible to reproduce multiple copies of a picture.
Louis Jacques Daguerre invents the Daguerreotype, the first commercially successful photographic process for creating a permanent image on a metal plate.
French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce invents the heliograph, a print that required eight hours of light exposure to create and which soon faded.
The Chinese provide the earliest known written record of their exploration of camera obscura, or pinhole imagery.
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