The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the ...

The 1975 prototype of the first digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson for Kodak(Courtesy Steven Sasson) If you told a teenager today that snapping a photograph used to require buying film in ...

The last few years have been particularly tough for Kodak, the almost-120-year-old photographic company based in Rochester, New York. As we ticked over into the 21st century, Kodak employed some ...

Some cameras used to be the size of a whole room, requiring multiple people to operate. The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to ...