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A basic history of the Camera

A basic history of the Camera


The history of the camera has an extensive background since it can be
traced back for centuries. During the 5th Century B.C., Mo Ti of China
discovers the principal idea of the camera. He noted that the reflected
light rays of an illuminated object passing through a small dark
enclosure result in an inverted but exact image of the object.

A basic history of the Camera


Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre designed the first commercially manufactured
camera. It was named the Daguerreotype. It involved the coating of copper
plates by mercury vapor. The resultant plate was sensitized and exposed to
produce a mirror like exact reproduction of the scene, usually a portrait. It
produced a single image, but its only problem was it was not reproducible. It
required exposure times of 20-30 minutes.

A basic history of the Camera


The invention of the gelatin dry plate in 1871 involved a heat-ripening a
gelatin emulsion which greatly increased its sensitivity and finally made
a so-called "instantaneous" snapshot exposures practical.

A basic history of the Camera


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 preloaded with enough film for 100 exposures
and needed to be sent back to the factory
for processing and reloading when the roll
was finished.

A basic history of the Camera


A number of manufacturers started to use
35mm film for still photography between
1905 and 1913. The first 35mm cameras
available to the public, and reaching
significant numbers in sales were the Tourist
Multiple, in 1913, and the Simplex, in 1914.

A basic history of the Camera


The first practical reflex camera was
theFranke & Heidecke Rolleiflex medium
format TLR of 1928. Though both single- and
twin-lens reflex cameras had been available
for decades, they were too bulky to achieve
much popularity. The Rolleiflex, however,
was sufficiently compact to achieve
widespread popularity and the mediumformat TLR design became popular for both
high- and low-end cameras.

A basic history of the Camera


The first cell phone with a built-in camera
was manufactured by Samsung and released
in South Korea in June of 2000. The SCHV200 flipped open to reveal a 1.5-inch TFTLCD, and the built-in digital camera was
capable of taking 20 photos at 350,000-pixel
resolution, which is 0.35-megapixels, but
you had to hook it up to a computer to get
your photos. The camera and the phone
components were essentially separate
devices housed in the same body.

A basic history of the Camera

A basic history of the Camera

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