History of a Camera

By: Cynthia Anderson

If your eye is a window to your soul, then your camera is surely a doorway to your heart?-Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray

What is a Camera?

~A device for recording visual images in the form of photographs, movie film, or video signals.

Types of Cameras

~SLR=Single Lens Reflex ~DSLR=Digital Single Lens

Reflex ~P&S=Point and shoot

cameras

Gives the photographer the Freedom to take picture that most point and shoot cameras can't do.

SLR and DSLR Cameras

First Camera and Image

~First photographic image was taken with a "Camera Obscura" (1814)-Shutter was open for eight hours and faded shortly afterwards-Was taken by Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce

1843- The first advertisement using a photograph is made in Philadelphia

1859-The panoramic camera is patented in Sutton

1884-Flexible, paper based photographic film is invented by company "Eastman"

1913-1914-The first 35mm still camera is developed

1954-Eastman Kodak develops hi-speed tri-x film

1968-The first ever literally "out of this world"

1978-Konica invents the point and shoot autofocus camera

Different Types of Cameras

Old Fashion

Today Cameras

Random Facts

*Two types of cameras: Old Fashioned film and digital cameras

*All cameras are boxes that capture light

*Our disposable camera is equivalent to the box cameras

*Most photographers want their perfection in their work, rather than their equipment

*Every camera does the work it is designed to do, but maybe not to the same quality wanted

Your camera should become an extension of your heart. This means that it must fit comfortably with your lifestyle, be responsive rather than a burden, understand your moods, always be reliable and ever at the service of your soul.-Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray

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