2. Camera Obscura (390 BC)
The first camera obscura was made
and used in 390 BC.
The camera obscura was made by
making a room completely black
and making a little hole, so the
image from outside would come in
through this hole.
The camera obscura made the
image appear upside down.
390 BC
3. First Ever Permanent Photo
(1826)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
created the first ever
permanent photograph.
1826
4. First Photographic Negative
William Henry Fox Talbot
patents the Calotype
process, the first
negative-positive process
making possible the first
multiple copies
1834
6. First Moving Pictures
The first moving picture
camera called the
zoopraxiscope or the
wheel of life was made
by William Lincoln.
1851
7. First Mass Market Camera
In 1888, George
Eastman created the
very first mass market
camera, which was a
Kodak camera. By
1900 it was a mass
market
camera, formerly
known as “The
Brownie” 1888-1900
