Photography & Camera

All camera technology is based on the law of optics first discovered by Aristotle.


Johannes Kepler was the first person suggested the use of a lens to improve the image projected by a Camera Obscura in 1609



Photography word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. 

Alhazen invented the first pinhole camera, ( Camera Obscura ) and was able to explain why the images were upside down.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with camera obscura in 1827.

Louis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography.

The inventor of the first negative from which multiple postive prints were made was Henry Fox Talbot.

George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled in 1889.

The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera  the Kodak DC40 camera  the Casio QV-11  and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).