The Line Blurs Between
Hand held cameras and camera phones as manufacturers work day and night to make their cameras as smart as the digicams and DSLRs out there. FHM chronicles this transition…
1814
Joseph Niepce captures the first photographic image with Camera Obscura.
1830s
The very first camera, Daguerreotype, gets launched. It uses a copper plate to capture the light from the image.
1850s
Emulsion plates get invented. They just need 2-3 seconds of exposure to capture the image. Later, dry plates were invented that allowed photographers to store pictures.
Kodak introduces the first handy camera.
First 35mm still camera developed.
The first 35 mm camera, Ur-leica, is rolled out.
Birth of the Polaroid cameras. However, photos didn't come out the way you saw them in the viewfinder, so SLRs were invented.
The first disposable camera is invented by Photo-Pac.
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for the U.S. Navy. French company FEX introduces Photo Pack Matic – a disposable plastic camera that can click 12 photos of 4x4 cm.
Polaroid introduces instant color film.
Canon demonstrates the first digital electronic still camera.
QuickSnap, the first popularly sold disposable camera is launched by Fuji.
Kodak develops its photo CD system and also launches the Kodak Professional Digital Camera System, which was perhaps the first DSLR. The company then launches the first digital cam-recorders and cameras next year.
Apple QuickTake 100, the first camera that could be connected to the computer via a cable is launched.
Nikon launches D1, which marks the end of photo films and becomes immensely popular with photojournalists. By the end of the decade, most of the cameras were at least of 2 MP and were aimed at professionals.
Early 2000
Fujifilm releases the first consumer DSLR called the FinePix S1 Pro.
Canon introduces image sensors.
Kodak announces that it would no longer manufacture film cameras.
The first socially connected camera, Samsung Galaxy, gets launched.
IN PHONES
First camera phone
Sharp J-SH04 (0.1MP; price $500)
Sharp J-SH05 (0.1MP; TFT screen)
It was sold only in Japan, but in 2002, Vodafone remodeled it for a European release.
First global launch of an integrated camera phone – Nokia 7650 (0.3MP camera)
First 1.3MP CCD Camera
Is launched by Sony Ericsson. Nokia, Motorola and Samsung follow suit.
The 7MP camera phone premiers – Samsung SCH-V770 with 3X zoom.
The Auto focus camera gets launched – Sony Ericsson S750 with 2MP
Nokia raises the bar – Launches N90 with Carl Zeiss lens, 2MP auto-focus phone with a rotatable barrel.
Sony Ericsson answers Nokia N90 with K800 – Launched in July, the camera has Xenon flash.
Nokia fights back – Rolls out N73 (3.2 MP), N93 (3x Optical Zoom and the first camcorder phone with Carl Zeiss lens).
Nokia spins out 5MP camera – The N95 with 5MP and the N82 with 5MP and Xenon Flash.
Sony Ericsson follows with the K850 that has a poor 5MP camera.
Samsung starts 8MP phase – Presents the i850 and M8800 Pixon.
Variable apertures – Nokia revamps the N86 with variable apertures and 8MP.
Samsung releases the first 12MP camera phone – The M8910 Pixon12 came with a 28mm wide-angled lens and Xenon flash.
Nokia beats all with N8 – The 12 MP camera boasts of 4000x3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash, check quality, 1/1.83'' sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging and face detection.
The 42 MP camera becomes a reality – Nokia rolls out 808 PureView.
From the February 2013 issue of FHM India.
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