Photography began in 1826, after a man called Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph from a camera. The hobby and profession belonged to only professionals and the wealthy until George Eastman created 'Kodak' in the 1880s. He created a roll of film which didn't require the solid plates to be changed regularly, and from this he developed a small box camera that held 100 film exposures. In the 1950s, 'Nikon' introduced their first Nikon F camera. For the next 30 years, SLR-style cameras remained the camera of choice. Many improvements were introduced to both the cameras and the film itself. In the 1980s and 1990s, manufacturers began to work on cameras that electronically stored images; by 1991, 'Kodak' had produced the first digital camera, causing other companies to follow quickly behind. Even the most basic point-and-shoot camera now takes higher quality images than Niépce’s pewter plate, and smartphones can easily pull off a high-quality printed photograph.