Major Camera Events in History 1960 - 1980
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Updated: 31 Oct 2017
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Created byLuke Fanizzi
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1954
Eastman Kodak introduces high-speed Tri-X film.1961
First “film-less” digital camera concept is credited to Eugene F. Lally.1957
First self-contained amphibious underwater camera, the Calypso-Phot, built by Jean de Wouters for Jacques-Yves Cousteau.1950
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.1960
First digital camera signals used in cameras over analog by NASA.1963
Polaroid comes out with the first colored film.1973
Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip: 100 rows and 100 columns of pixels.1975
The first digital camera is developed by Steven J. Sasson.1975
Bryce Bayer of Kodak develops the Bayer filter mosaic pattern for CCD color image sensors.1978
Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF.
It was named “Jasupin”.1980
The first consumer camcorder is released. Sony
put out the first consumer camcorder, allowing
people to record their memories in real time.
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