World Photography Day: Know the Development of the Camera over the Years

{On August 19, World Photography Day is observed across the world while the National Camera Day is observed each year on June 29th. This day celebrates photographs, the camera and its invention.}

Returning to World Photography Day is all about celebrating photography, whether you are an amateur, hobbyist or a professional.

It originated after the invention of the Daguerreotype photographic processes, developed by Joseph NicephoreNiepce and Louis Daguerre in 1837. But on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as the first practical gift to the world. In a way this was the true beginning of the World Photography Day.

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The History tells us that photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of the principle of the camera obscura and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light.

However the history of the camera can be traced much further back than the introduction of photography. Cameras evolved from the camera obscura, and continued to change through many generations of photographic technology, including daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras.

Today we are as thankful for the development of photography as an affordable medium for capturing memories.

As the World celebrates Photography day, just for fun, we put together this gallery with some of the milestones in camera development since the early 1900s.

{It’s quite true without camera one can’t have a photo!!! Do you remember your first camera? What kind of camera do you use today?}