By: Cleo Newton
Whenever anyone wants to take a picture, they can use their phone to do so, but that hasn’t always been the case.
According to an article from NFI, the camera obscura is probably the first camera made. This camera was just a little room with light coming out of a small hole, and an inverted image from outside was projected on the adjacent wall. This camera didn’t take pictures, light just came through a tiny hole and projected on a surface. Manuscripts of this kind of camera were traced back to China in 400 BC. These records were written by a Chinese scholar of the Han Dynasty, Mozi.
Designs for the handheld handflex reflex camera was proposed by a German author Johann Zahnn in 1686. It wasn’t until 1816 when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created a prototype of this that people actually started realizing this camera. The images that Niépce made were made on silver chloride-lined paper; the oldest photo he made was in 1826. This image is on display in an exhibit in the University of Texas in Austin.
Louis Daguerre created a more efficient camera. Although his camera could produce better images, the pictures would vanish quickly.
A box camera named the Kodak was marketed by George Eastman in 1888. These cameras came with 100 exposures, and they had to be developed at the Eastman Kodak plant in Rochester, New York. A cheaper version of this camera, Kodak’s Brownie Camera, replaced it in 1901. In the following years, 1905-1913, camera companies would sell 35mm film which people could buy to load their cameras with.
Sasson was the first digital camera and was invented in 1975 by Eastman Kodak American engineer Steve Sasson. This camera was 8 pounds, it required a Kodak’s movie lense, 16 nickel-cadmium batteries, and a digital recorder. It could create black and white pictures in about 23 seconds.
The first DSRL camera was created in 1999, this camera could produce high quality images and many photographers liked using this camera. The DSRL camera allows you to see what you are taking a picture of through the viewfinder, which was considered impressive and convenient at the time. People could now take better pictures.
So, looking back, you can see how the camera has developed over time.
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