Capturing the world through your own lens is exciting, and most of us probably didn't realize how the small step of holding a film camera, a DSLR or a compact camera for the first time would turn into ...

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 ...

Unless you grew up in a time after cameraphones arrived, there’s a very good chance your first digital camera was a weird Game Boy accessory. The Game Boy Camera was definitely my first digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Technology vanishes. It either succeeds and becomes ubiquitous or fails. For example, there was a time when networking and multimedia were computer buzzwords. Now they are just how computers work. On ...

The Game Boy Camera might have been my first foray into digital photography, but my first real digital camera—the one that taught me the basics of photography and digital post-processing—was also one ...

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 ...

Canon is commemorating the 80th anniversary of their first camera, the Kwanon (not a misspelling). Marking Japan’s first 35mm focal-plane-shutter camera, the Kwanon was produced in prototype form in ...