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Session I: revision 1

Mr. Charlie

Agenda History of the Camera Part 1 Camera Obscura: A Hole in the Tent What Does a Lens Do? How Do Different Cameras Work? Summary Next steps

History of the Camera Part 1

15 Hundred Years in a Few Hundred Seconds. Camera Obscura:

A hole in the Tent

Camera Obscura

A Hole in a Tent: Pinhole Camera First records 6th Century A darken tent, room, or

box with a pinhole in it Pretty bulky, and didn’t

fit in cell-phones Eventually added a

Convex Lens

View or Field Camera 1

Perfect if you’re nuts! Became all the rage by

the Civil War Had a reasonable lens

and shutter Used glass plates for

film Not as bulky, but still

didn’t fit in cell-phones

View or Field Camera 2 Bought it when I

was 16 The guy has

been trying to buy it back ever since

The favorite in my collection looks like this

View or Field Camera Diagram

The Original SLR: Single Lens Reflex 1

The Graflex Came in several sizes Didn’t use glass plates Quite portable! Image you see is coming

through the 1 lens. Didn’t have to take it

apart to take a picture Fastest camera around

for its time

The Original SLR: Single Lens Reflex 2

Light reflects off mirror up to ground glass

During exposure mirror flips up and light goes to film

WWI: Amazing tech at the time

The Original SLR: Single Lens Reflex Diagram

Medium Format:Twin Lens Reflex

Very portable Light, quiet, fast Used roll film Could be made cheaply

and still have nice results Still popular today for the

same reasons Most didn’t let you change

the lens Still didn’t fit in a cell

phone

Medium Format:Twin Lens Reflex Diagram

Rangefinder Focus & 35mm

Leica first popular 35mm rangefinder

Small, light, quiet, fast, made WWII spies effective

Could fit it in your pocket

Rangefinder Focus & 35mm

Leica was not a folding design

This Kodak Automatic IIIs didn’t either

These designs had interchangeble lenses

The folding ones fit in your pocket better

Rangefinder Focus Medium Format: My Latest Find

Medium Format SLR Hasselblad the best

known Like the Graflex,

but used roll film Hasselblad was the

first camera on the moon

All of these designs are expensive

(Moon model broke during first roll)

Rangefinder Focus Medium Format Diagram

Medium Format SLR: Used Same Design as the Old 4x5 Graflex

Some were very inexpensive

This model was so expensive, it was the last professional camera Kodak ever made

Became very automated

Great design for the non-professional

35mm SLR

Small and quiet Incredible options Lenses change

easily Amazing selection

of theses lenses Extremely popular

consumer camera Later became

Digital (DSLR)

35mm SLR: A More Modern Version

35mm SLR

Summarize Cameras are still made in lots of sizes We’ve covered the most obvious designs Film cameras popularity goes up and

down There is probably at least one of these

types in your family that no one uses Be really nice to that relative

Next Steps

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