the history of the camera
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THE HISTORY OF THE CAMERA. PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE YEARS. 500 B.C. In 5 th and 4 th century B.C., Chinese and Greek philosophers are able to describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. . 1500 A.D. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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THE HISTORY OF THE CAMERA
PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE YEARS
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500 B.C.In 5th and 4th century B.C., Chinese and Greek philosophers are able to describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
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1500 A.D.The first pinhole camera (also known as the camera obscura) is invented by Alhazen Ibn Al-Haytham. He was a Muslim scientist, mathematician and philosopher, and is considered to be the father of modern optics.
Alhazen’s camera obscura
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1814Joseph Niepce achieved the first known photographic image with a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Joseph Niepce’s
photograph. It was taken at Saint-Loup-de-Varrenes.
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1837In 1837 Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype camera. It was the first camera that could take a fixed image that would not fade and needed only 30 minutes of light exposure. This is the
design for the daguerreotype camera.
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18411841William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process; which is the first negative-positive process making it possible to make multiple copies.
One of Talbot’s negative-positive photographs.
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1859The panoramic camera is invented and patented by Thomas Sutton. This camera achieved a panoramic effect by using curved glass plates and a hollow glass lens filled with distilled water giving an angle of 140 degrees.
Thomas Sutton’s panoramic camera.
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1884-1900In 1888,George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1884. His first mass-marketed camera, the Brownie, went on sale in 1900 and continued to be sold until 1960. Two examples of
the brownie camera,
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1900In 1900 the Reise-camera was invented. It was a light, foldable camera that made it easy for photographers to take landscape pictures.
Two types of the reise-cameras.
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1913In 1913 the first 35mm still camera was invented by Oskar Barnack. It became the standard for all film cameras.
Oskar Barnack’s 35mm camera.
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1927In 1927, the General Electric Company invents the modern flash bulb. It had a tremendous light output, nearly 180,000 lumen-seconds, necessary for the rather slow speed captures of the time.
Advertisement for the Sashalite flash bulb; GEC’s first commercial flash bulb.
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1948In 1948, Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute.
Edwin Land’s first polaroid camera
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1978Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera called Konica C35 AF.
The Konica C35 AF
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1981Sony demonstrates the Sony Mavica – the world’s first digital electronic still camera. Images could be displayed to a television monitor or color printer.
The Sony Mavica
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1986Fuji introduced the disposable camera. The inventors also call this device “single-use cameras”. The camera was easily accessible and made photography available to everybody, no matter their wealth The current Fuji
disposable camera
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1991In 1991 Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was of a great use for photojournalists.
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1994The first digital camera for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable was the Apple QuickTake 100 camera.
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2000In Japan, Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone
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2005The Canon EOS 5D is launched, This is the first consumer-priced full frame digital SLR.
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2007On June 29, 2007, the first Apple iPhone was released. It featured a 2 MP camera. With each new iPhone release, a better and better camera accompanied it
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Sourceshttp://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htmhttp://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/http://www.myplace.edu.au/TLF_resources/R6388/description.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras