History of the Camera

The history of the camera can be traced much further back than the inroduction of photograph. Photographic cameras evolved from the camera obscura (Pinhole) and continued through many generations of photographic technology including daguerrotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film and digital cameras. Camera obscura is pinhole photography, a device which dates back into the ancient chinese and greek times. A pinhole or lens project an image of a scene outside upside down onto a viewing surface. By trapping light and using reflections.

There was - Daguerrotypes and calotypes
Dry plates
Kodak
35mm
TLRs and SLRs
Instant camera
Auto mation
Digital camera
Analog Electric Cameras

The arrival of true digial cameras happened by the late 1980s, the technology required to produce truly commercial digitals existed. The first true digital camera that recordd images as a computersized file was FUJI DS-IP of 1988.