1950’s to Present Day Photography

1. 1950’s to Present Day Photography Jonathan Steffen and Skyler Heller

2. Photography Timeline • 1954 • Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film. • 1960 • EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy. • 1963 • Polaroid introduces instant color film. • 1968 • Photograph of the Earth from the moon. • 1973 • Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera. • 1978 • Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera. • 1980 • Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder. • 1984 • Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera. • 1985 • Pixar introduces digital imaging processor. • 1990 • Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.

3. Photography Timeline • 1993 • NCSA releases the first WWW browser Apple Quicktake digital camera announced (developed jointly with Kodak). It was the first consumer level digital camera It boasts 640x480 (0.3 MP) resolution, a built-in flash, and could store 8 photos in its internal memory. It connected to an Apple Macintosh computer via a serial cable. It was Ònot intended to replace filmÓ and is notorious for devouring AA battery power quickly. • 1995 • Kodak announces the release of their fourth generation professional digital SLR, the DCS 460, a 6.2 megapixel camera with an ISO sensitivity of 80. It used the N90s (Nikon) body as a base. Its original list price: $12,000 US • 1997 • Pentax introduces 645N, the world's first autofocus medium format film SLR Digimarc introduces its digital watermarking system to track and protect photographic images (jpegs) on the internet. • 1998 • The first consumer level megapixel cameras are introduced Kodak DCS 520 professional digital SLR released using a Canon body and (for the first time in a pro digital SLR?) an LCD allowing the user to view photos immediately after they are taken. ] • 2000 • Fuji releases the S1 professional/pro-sumer SLR digital camera based on the Nikon F60 body (a prosumer level body). It boasts 6.13 MP. The starting list price was $4,000 • 2001 • Canon releases the EOS 1D, its first digital SLR camera. It has 4.48 MP, a firewire connection, and a max shutter speed of 1/6000th of a second. The starting list price is $7,000

4. Photography Timeline • 2002 • Digital SLRs almost completely replace 35mm cameras in Western dailly news coverage. • 2003 • More than 80% of Canon and NikonÕs camera sales are of digital cameras. NikonÕs 35mm SLR sales shrunk by 25%. Rumors circulate that Nikon will soon stop developing new compact 35mm film camera models • 2004 • Sales of new point and shoot cameras are 90% digital. Nikon completely stops new production of point and shoot 35mm film cameras • 2005 • Nikon D2X released: shoots up to 12MP images (gives about half the equivalent resolution of a traditional 35mm film negative). It shoots full frame//full chip at 5 FPS and 8 fps in a cropped sensor mode. It has a true RGB histogram, but the ISO sensitivities are only from 100 to 800 (although there are noisy pushed Ò1600Ó and Ò3200Ó H modes. The photographer can record voice memos with the built in microphone. Starting list price is $5,000 US. • 2006 • Dalsa produces a 111 megapixel CCD sensor, the highest resolution at that time. • 2008 • Polaroid announces it is discontinuing the production of all instant film products, citing the rise of digital imaging technology. • 2009 • Kodak announces the discontinuance of Kodachrome film.[8] • 2011 • Lytroreleases the first pocket-sized consumer light-field camera, capable of refocusing images after being taken.

5. 1950s Camera 1950 was an important year for Canon. As they continued to make the Model IIB, incorporating some changes that resulted in an improved camera, they also produced several trial versions, between serial 50000 and serial 50200, of the models that later became the Canon IV and Canon III.

6. 1960s Camera • The Canon Demi was a beautifully styled half-frame consumer camera from the mid-1960s. At this time, the Japanese surged ahead of their German and American competitors in large part because of the sheer beauty of their products.

7. 1970s Camera • There are a lot of cameras that have adopted the retro appearances of the Canon, Minolta and Leica setups from the 1970s. What makes the X100 stand out is the combination of a high-end full-sized SLR sensor inside a compact body, along with a fixed lens.

8. 1980s Camera • The F3 is Nikon’s top professional camera from the 1980s. I picked one up on ebay recently, mainly because of how absurdly inexpensive they’ve gotten. It was only a couple of years ago that they routinely sold for $500. But despite a resurgent interest in 35mm film equipment from some quarters, I was able to get this one for $130. A perfect little 50mm f/1.8 will set you back another $50 or so, or you can go the way I’m doing, and get top of the line lenses for completely absurd prices (this 180mm f/2.8 cost $127; similarly performing modern lenses cost ten times that).

9. 1990s Camera • The Kodak DCS 400 series was a series of Nikon based digital SLR cameras with sensor and added electronics produced by Eastman Kodak. • The cameras in this series include the 1.5-megapixel DCS 420 (introduced in August 1994), the 1.5-mpx DCS 410 (introduced in 1996), and the 6.2-mpx DCS 460 (introduced in March 1995). In addition, Kodak sold a version of the back from the DCS 460 adapted for medium format bodies as the DCS 465. Kodak also made a camera especially for Associated Press. It was called NC2000 (based on the Nikon N90/F90), later upgraded to NC2000e (based on the Nikon N90s/F90x) using many of the same components as was used for the DCS 400 series. Kodak also used the imaging component and electronics of the DCS 420 to produce a digital version of the Nikonos underwater camera, which was produced in limited numbers for military and scientific applications as the Kodak DCS 425.

10. Current Camera • The FinePix S9400W with WiFi and the FinePix S9200 without WiFi both have a 16 megapixel CMOS sensor. They each bost a maximum ISO of 12,800 with a F2.9-6.5 lens with 50x optical zoom and with up to 100x magnification. Both cameras also feature Super Macro Mode to get images as close as 1cm and a continuous shooting speed of 10 fps. The S9400W and S9200 both have an advertised start up time of one second, auto focus of .3 seconds, and Fujifilm states both models will be ready to shoot again within .5 seconds.

11. Photos 1950’s

12. Photos 1960’s

13. Photos 1970’s

14. Photos 1980’s

15. Photos 1990’s

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