Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we searched “Chicago and Alton railroad camera,” we found the photo was real. It was included in a pamphlet made around 1900, ...

For years, claims have spread on social media platforms that a photo genuinely showed the world’s first camera. When we searched “Chicago and Alton railroad camera,” we found the photo was real. It ...

In the grand scheme of things, 80-years doesn’t seem like such a long time. Back in 1934, Canon built the prototype of their first camera, the Kwanon. Since then, quite a bit has changed. Canon is ...

The evolution of the camera is a testament to two centuries of innovation. This journey began in 1816 with French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, who created the first photographic camera capable of ...

While the official history of the digital camera begins with a Kodak engineer tinkering around with digital electronics in 1975, the first digital camera was actually built a few months prior. At the ...

Take a lens from a Super 8 camera, a whole stack of ni-cad batteries, a digital to analog converter from a voltmeter, a highly experimental CCD and what have you got? Kodak's first digital still ...