Cameras
Two hundred years of the camera — and the footage it gave us. From Niépce's eight-hour window in 1826 and Muybridge's galloping horse to the Lumière train, the moon-landing broadcast, the camcorder, the first digital frame, and the film studio everyone now carries in a pocket. The devices that captured the world, shown beside what they captured.
A chronological documentary of 729 moments on Loreline.
last updated 2026-07-21
Eras
- The Birth of the Image (1826–1888) — The camera obscura, Niépce's first surviving photograph, the daguerreotype, the calotype negative, wet plate — humanity learns to fix light.
- Colour, Instant & the Moon (1907–1979) — Autochrome and Kodachrome bring colour; Polaroid makes it instant; Super 8 fills the family album; and a camera on the Moon shows us the whole Earth.
- Pictures That Move (1878–1895) — Muybridge's galloping horse settles a bet and starts cinema; Edison's Kinetoscope and the Lumières' Cinématographe make pictures move.
- The Snapshot & The Silver Screen (1888–1929) — Kodak puts a camera in everyone's hands and the Brownie invents the snapshot; Méliès and Porter invent the movies; the Leica miniaturises it all.
- The Video Revolution (1936–2005) — Television cameras, the first videotape, the Portapak, the camcorder — and the bystander's camcorder that could suddenly hold power to account.
- The Digital Turn (1975–2007) — Steven Sasson's 1975 prototype, the megapixel race, the DSLR, and the first cameras built into phones — film becomes data.
- A Camera in Every Pocket (2007–today) — The iPhone, GoPro, the drone, mirrorless and computational photography — until everyone alive carries a film studio and the whole world is on camera.
…and 729 more moments. Full text archive: /loreline-text/cameras.md
