1. History of a Camera
Digital Photography

2. Camera Obscura (mid-1500s)
The camera obscura was a lightproof box with a pinhole (later lens were used) on one side and a translucent screen on the other. This screen was used for tracing by the artists of the inverted image transmitted through the pinhole.

3. Pinhole Camera (4th Century)
A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. The idea of this type of camera has been around as early as the 4th Century.
There have been many different versions of a pinhole camera–-- homemade and commercial.

4. Daguerreotype Camera (1800s)
The process of capturing photographic images that would not fade away, introduced by Daguerre came to be known as the ‘daguerreotype’.

5. Dry Plate Camera (1800s)
The dry plate camera is a box camera that used gelatin plates to capture photographs.

6. Box Camera (1888)
The box camera is, with the exception of the pinhole camera, a camera in its simplest form with a simple lens and shutter that is factory-filled with film.

7. 35mm Camera (early 1900s)
A 35mm camera is a box camera that uses film negatives to capture photographs after they have been exposed.

8. Polaroid/Instant Camera (1948)
The instant camera is a type of camera with self-developing film.

9. Disposable Camera (1986)
The disposable or single-use camera is a simple box camera sold with a roll of film installed, meant to be used once.

10. Digital Camera (late 1980s)
A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor.

11. Digital Camera-1990-Present Day-SLR-Single Lens Reflect
Zoom Lens
Full Auto/Manual
Could use flash
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