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Camera History. By Shayna Salmon. Camera Obscura. Photographic cameras were a development of the camera obscura, a device dating back to the ancient Chinese and ancient Greeks, which uses a pinhole or lens to project an image of the scene outside upside-down onto a viewing surface.
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Camera History By Shayna Salmon
Camera Obscura • Photographic cameras were a development of the camera obscura, a device dating back to the ancient Chinese and ancient Greeks, which uses a pinhole or lens to project an image of the scene outside upside-down onto a viewing surface.
19th century studio camera • This camera was created by Desire Van monckhoven in the year 1885
Kodak No. 2 Brownie box camera, circa 1910 • The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman, who started manufacturing paper film in 1885 before switching to celluloid in 1889. • It was a very simple box camera with a fixed-focus lens and single shutter speed, which along with its relatively low price appealed to the average consumer.
Leica I, 1925 • It was the first commercially successful 35 mm camera. • Without it, the millions of other 35mm cameras would not have followed…At least not in their present form. • Oskar Barnack actually invented 35 mm photography as we know it.
Daguerreotype Camera 1839 • The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process. • The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate.
Argus C3, 1939 • The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. • The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format. • Due to its shape, size, and weight, it is commonly referred to as "The Brick" by photographers
The Contax S of 1949 • The first pentaprism SLR • The Contax S is a 35mm SLR camera introduced by the East German VEB Zeiss Ikon in 1949.
Asahiflex IIb, 1954 • The Asahiflex was a 35mm single-lens reflex camera built by the Asahi Optical Corporation It was the first SLR camera built in Japan.
Nikon F of 1959 • The Nikon F camera, introduced in 1959, was Nikon's first SLR camera. • It was one of the most advanced cameras of its day. • Although most of its concepts had already been introduced elsewhere, it was the first camera to combine them all in one camera.
Polaroid Model J66, 1961 • The Polaroid Model J66 was a simplified Electric Eye camera marketed from April 1961-1963; it is a larger, heavier version of the J33, which debuted in the fall of 1961. • Polaroid made nearly 1,000,000 units of this camera, which retailed for $89.99, a lot of money in 1961.
Sony Mavica, 1981 • Mavica was a brand of Sony cameras which used removable disks as the main recording media. • In August, 1981, Sony announced the Sony Mavica electronic still camera, the first commercial electronic still camera
Canon RC-701, 1986 • The RC-701 became the very first Still Video Camera marketed, when it went on sale in July 1986. • The RC-701, had 780 pixels horizontally and recorded its images on a special floppy disk. This floppy disk was a format standardized by the industry and could record 50 image fields.
Nikon D1, 1999 • The Nikon D1 is a digital single-lens reflex camera introduced on June 15, 1999. • It featured a 2.7 megapixel image sensor, 4.5 frames per second continuous shooting, and accepted the full range of Nikon F-mount lenses.
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Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera • http://www.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi • http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Contax_S • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_C3 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype • http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_19th_century_studio_camera • http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/dcc/data/1986-2000/1986_rc701.html?lang=undefined&categ=crn&page=1986-2000 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D1 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F • http://www.cameraquest.com/leicaa.htm • http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_value_of_a_Polaroid_J66_Land_camera