History of photography

• Aristotle made a casual reference to Camera Obscura (meaning dark chamber) in 330BC while showing sun making a circular image when it shines through a square hole.
• Photography is greek work for light and writing, first used by Johann von Maedler in 1839.
• First commercial camera was made by Alphonse Giroux of Paris in 1839. They made around 250 cameras, each costing $50.
• Kodak marketed Brownie in 1900. It costed $1.
• The first Polaroid film was produced by Polaroid corporation in 1947.
• Vanguard 2 spacecraft took the first photo of the earth in 1959.
• In 1991, Kodak came up with the first digital camera, a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodad with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.