History of the camera

History of the camera By Charlene Fillinger

The image shows the Susse Frères Daguerreotype camera from 1839, in exhibition in the Westlicht Photography Museum in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the first cameras invented. #1

#2 Collodion dry plates had been available since 1855, thanks to the work of Désiré van Monckhoven, but it was not until the invention of the gelatin dry plate in 1871 by Richard Leach Maddox that they rivaled wet plates in speed and quality.

The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman, who started manufacturing paper film in 1885 before switching to celluloid in 1889. His first camera, which he called the "Kodak," was first offered for sale in 1888. 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. The Kodak came pre-loaded with enough film for 100 exposures and needed to be sent back to the factory for processing and reloading when the roll was finished. By the end of the 19th century Eastman had expanded his lineup to several models including both box and folding cameras. #3

#4 The Prototype 35 mm camera (Ur-Leica) around 1913, though further development was delayed for several years by World War I. Leitz test-marketed the design between 1923 and 1924, receiving enough positive feedback that the camera was put into production as the Leica I (for Leitz camera) in 1925.

Such an improved version of the 1933 Kwanon prototype. Japanese cameras would begin to become popular in the West after Korean War veterans and soldiers stationed in Japan brought them back to the United States and elsewhere. # 5

#6 AsahiflexIIb, 1954 A similar revolution in SLR design began in 1933 with the introduction of the IhageeExakta, a compact SLR which used 127 rollfilm.

Nikon F of 1959 — the first Japanese system camera # 8 It was the F, along with the earlier S series of rangefinder cameras, that helped establish Nikon's reputation as a maker of professional-quality equipment.

The first camera to feature automatic exposure was the selenium light meter-equipped Polaroid Model J66, 1961 but its extremely high price of $225 kept it from achieving any degree of success. By the 1960s, however, low-cost electronic components were commonplace and cameras equipped with light meters and automatic exposure systems became increasingly widespread. # 9

Sony Mavica, 1981 • Analog electronic cameras do not appear to have reached the market until 1986 with the Canon RC-701.

The first analog electronic camera marketed to consumers may have been the Canon RC-250 Xapshot in 1988 • Canon RC-701, 1986

The first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P of 1988, which recorded to a 16 MB internal memory card that used a battery to keep the data in memory. This camera was never marketed in the United States, and has not been confirmed to have shipped even in Japan.

Digital camera • Digital and film cameras share an optical system, typically using a lens with a variable diaphragm to focus light onto an image pickup device. The diaphragm and shutter admit the correct amount of light to the imager, just as with film but the image pickup device is electronic rather than chemical.

This camera has it has a 10.1 Mega pixels.

This Camera is an advance to the other because it has 6.0 mega pixels.

This is one of the more recently added cameras and its one of the more and higher quality.

History of the camera