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History or Life Without Camera

History of camera and the invention of camera cannot be easily ignored today. Imagine a life without cameras almost unimaginable right!. It becomes such a necessity, it had to be fused with our phones. It enable us to carry it with us conveniently. But what if they never existed. Just imagine!

If they were never be invented, so many of our memories would be lost and never carried forward. I think about education, it would have been such an inconvenience. Just think about it, how quick and easy it is to illustrate and explain something only because you were able to take a photo of it. Otherwise good luck with explaining what an armadillo looks like.

First Camera | Camera Obscura

The first camera can be traced back to as far as the fifteen hundred. Abu Ali Al-hasan Ibn Al-Haytham is considered to be the father of optics and is credited with the invention of the world’s first Pinhole camera called the camera obscura.

How the Camera Obscura looks like?

How the world’s first camera looks?

“This contraption was a light proof box with a small hole on one side for light to enter and strike a reflective surface to project inverted, but colored image. The camera obscura was originally used to observe solar events and in drawing architecture back.”

How long the Camera Obscura used to record the scenes?

Then the technology to capture and record photos did not exist. It wasn’t until the late 1830s. Because of the invention of portable camera obscura.

Portable Camera Obscura

The Camera Obscura remains until the late 1830s. Its technology gone old when Joseph Nissi used a Portable Camera Obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen to light.

Evolution of Cameras

Following Joseph’s success, a number of other experiments progressed rapidly and the development of photography took off quickly Daguerreotypes, Emulsion Plates and Wet Plates were developed. Almost simultaneously in the mid to late eighteen hundred nape’s successes led to a collaboration with louis Jaguar and the result was the Daguerreotypes, a forerunner of modern film.

What are Daguerreotypes?

How long does a Daguerreotypes last?

The Daguerreotypes with a copper plate coated with silver and exposed to add in vapor before it was exposed to light to create the image early. Daguerreotypes had to be exposed to light for up to 15 minutes and they were very popular until it was replaced in the late 1850s by the emulsion plates.

What Are Emulsion plates?

Emulsion plates quickly gained popularity as they required only a few seconds of exposure time which made them much more suited to take in portraits. As a matter of fact, many photographs from the civil war were produced on wet plates and it was during this time that bellows were added to cameras to help with focusing. 

What are Bellows?

“Bellows are essentially pleated, expanding pieces that resemble an accordion and are often installed between the camera and the lens. The photographer can move the lens even further away from the camera to get incredible extreme close-up photos thanks to the bellows, which can be extended or retracted.”

How many types of Emulsion plates are?

The two most common types of emotion plates were the 

• Ambrotype
• Tintype

What Is Ambrotype?

“A positive photograph on glass created using a variation of the wet plate collodion technique is an ambrotype. Sometimes referred to as a collodion positive in the UK. It is visible through reflected light, much like a print on paper.”

What is Tintype?

“A tintype, often referred to as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph created by developing a direct positive on a thin piece of metal covered in dark lacquer or enamel. Dark lacquer or enamel, that serves as the substrate for the photographic emulsion.”

What is difference between Ambrotype, Daguerreotypes and Tintype?

“Ambrotype use a glass plate instead of copper plate of the daguerreotypes. Tintypes use a tin plate while these plates were much more sensitive to light.” 

Dried Gelatin Plates

Photography took a huge leap forward in the 1870s when Richard Maddox improved on a previous invention to make Dried Gelatin Plates. These plates were equal to the emulsion plate in terms of speed and quality. But the most significant advancement was that they could be stored. It was developed at a much later time if needed. Photographers now had much more freedom in taking photos. They also allowed for smaller cameras to be invented that could be handheld. As the exposure time decreased the first camera with the mechanical shutter was developed.

What is mechanical shutter?

“When a blind or set of blades is closed on a mechanical shutter, light cannot reach the sensor; when they are opened, it can. The term “exposure” refers to the amount of time the shutter is left open. Focal plane shutters are compatible with all lenses since they are placed right in front of the image plane.”

Cameras were Rear

Needless to say, cameras were very expensive. It was only available to the very rich persons. But it wasn’t until the 1880s when George Eastman established the company kodak. By doing this the average people were able to avail cameras.

By then the cameras had started to shape and look more like cameras, we are used to seeing today but still it wasn’t as easy to develop the photographs. The cameras did not have any focusing adjustments and had the capacity to shoot only 100 photographs once. After 100 photographs the camera had reached its capacity. The entire camera had to be sent to the factory to develop the photos.

Starting of Leica Company

In 1913 Oscar Barnack began to research the possibility of inventing a smaller camera that anyone could use. 

When did the Leica camera company started?

The Leica camera began to be commercialized, after World War I. They eventually developed a second model called the Leica one over the years cameras began. The films used then were still pretty large and costly. But by the 1940s the 35-millimeter film had become popular and cheap enough for the average person to afford. 

Starting of Polariod Company

Around 1948 Polaroid introduced its model 95 which had the capacity to take and develop photographs in less than one minute. Even though this camera was fairly expensive the general populace awed by the camera’s instant imaging. This took to the camera instantly around.

Starting of Other famous Camera companies and camera improvements

 In the 1950s Asahi which later became Pentax introduced the Asahi flex and Nikon introduced its Nikon F camera. These were both SLR type cameras. 

What is SLR type cameras?

“A single-lens reflex camera is a type of camera that often employs a mirror and prism system to allow the photographer to see directly through the lens before the image is taken. The perceived image and the final image could differ dramatically with twin lens reflex and rangefinder cameras.”

The Nikon F allowed for interchangeable lenses and other accessories for SLR style cameras. It remained the camera of choice. For the next 30 years many improvements were made to both the cameras and the film itself compact cameras that were capable of making image control decisions on their own were introduced. In the late 1970s and early 1980s these point and shoot cameras calculated shutter speed aperture and focus leaving photographers feet to concentrate on composition. The automatic cameras became immensely popular with casual photographer’s professionals and serious amateurs continued to prefer to make their own adjustments and enjoy the image control available with SLR cameras.

Details of Digital Cameras are here

The first digital camera was developed in 1988 but was never sold to the public until 1991 that kodak released the Kodak DCS which was their first in the long line of digital cameras. After the invention of this digital camera other manufacturers quickly followed and make their own digital cameras and today Canon, Nikon, Pentax and other manufacturers offer advanced digital cameras. Even the most basic point and shoot camera now takes higher quality images. After the invention of smartphones, they also fit a small camera into the smartphone. Smartphones can easily pull off a high-quality printed photograph the production.

Development of digital cameras has continued to increase over the years interestingly enough. Despite the move from digital cameras to smartphone cameras, there has been a rising popularity of polaroid film cameras in 2004. Epson a company well known for the photographic printer and Inc. introduced the first true mirrorless camera the rd1. Epson in partnership with Cosina. Inc developed the rd1 which was another big leap to the development of cameras. These cameras started gaining popularity among enthusiasts’ travelers and street photographers.

Who did not want to carry a bulky DSLR?

Now professional grid images can be produced with nothing. But a smartphone and a selfie stick it’s fascinating to imagine that just over 200 years ago photographs. As we know them were still experimental maybe in 10 years’ time, we’ll have camera eyes capable of producing the highest level of resolution possible. You can now see the modern high-quality cameras. Many people love to buy a smartphone with a high-quality camera. Which is the one of the reason of iPhone popularity. DSLR cameras are most loved ones. Every body need to call a photographer to take their photographs whit DSLR on any occasion.

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