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.
These are 4 really good photos
because they are clear and you
can see everything fine.
This is a really bad picture because
it is blurry and you cant really see it
as well as the other ones.
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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/19862000/1986_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_came
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