The Camera Obscura 1000AD The first camera was called 'Camera Obscura'. It was developed by the Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese people. This camera projected images when light was passed through it. The Camera Obscura was a small box with a hole in it, where the light passed through (Soft Schools, 2015). 

1814 Although the 'Camera Obscura' was invented much earlier, it could only make projections, not take photos. Years later an inventor named Joseph Niepce used the camera to take the first photograph. He used a chemical called 'silver nitrate' knowing that it changes colour when exposed to light, to take the first photograph. The photograph took 8 hour to develop (Soft Schools, 2015). 

The Daguerreotype Camera - 1837 Louis Daguerre invented this camera which was able to develop the image in only 30 minutes using light exposure, therefore building on Joseph Niepce's idea (Soft Schools, 2015). 

1851 - Frederick Scott Archer - Wet Collodion Process This man invented a way for photos to be developed in seconds. He did this by creating a way for glass negatives to be developed. This was called the 'Wet Collodion Process'. He revolutionised photography  (Newhall, 2015). 

1888 - Kodak Camera - George Eastman George Eastman released the first Kodak camera in 1888. This handheld camera had a role of 100 pieces of film in it, meaning people could take 100 photos with it before it was at full capacity. They would then send the film back to the company and they would print the photos (Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 2014). 

1948 - The first Polaroid Camera is marketed Edwin Herbert released the first Polaroid land camera which was able to produce a photo print in a minute. The photo is printed from the camera itself (Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 2015). 

1963 - Polacolour is released Polaroid released its first coloured film, meaning the pictures could be printed in colour (Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 2015).  

1975 - The first Digital Camera developed The first digital camera was developed by Steven Sasson. This camera could only take photos in black and white, and took 23 seconds to take a photograph. Each photograph was saved onto a cassette tape (Zhang, 2010). 

The Fuji - Quick Snap - 1986 Fuji-film released the first disposable camera called the quick snap (Ha, 2010).

1992 - The first professional digital cameras were made available by Kodak. (Mirnet, 1998). 

Samsung release the first camera phone in 2000, made in Japan. You would take photos with the phone, and then connect to to the computer to access the photos. This camera had 0.35 megapixels (Digital Trends, 2013). 

Today - The iPhone 6 and 6 plus are the camera phones that are most current. The cameras in these phones has 8 megapixels (Apple Inc, 2015

During that trip when the man first landed on the moon in 1969 on Apollo 11, they brought 12 Hasselblad cameras to document their historic moon walk. They had to leave the Hasselblads behind to be able to carry the extra lunar rock sample weight back to earth. I wonder if it was a hard choice; lunar rocks or Hasselblads. Personally I think they should’ve taken that into consideration before going up into space. Dumping Hasselblads is just painful.

 

The camera was designed by the engineer, Steve Sasson. And it weighed 8 pounds and recorded black and white pictures at 0,01 megapixels. Probably not even worth it to retouch a photo taken of yourself with this camera. It pretty much does the work for you. Want to hide a few extra pounds or freckles? Take a photo at 0,01 pixels. Brilliant!

3. Cameras share a history with guns.

With the manufacturing of cameras in the early days, the Colt revolver mechanisms were categorically used as models for some dry plate cameras. The design of cinema cameras was modelled after machine guns. “Freeze. Or I’ll shoot (with my phone)” Uh oh cheeeeze.

**4. The biggest SLR lens made to date is the Carl Zeiss Apo Sonnar T.*

It weighs 564 lb/256 kg and has a focal length of 1700mm. It was specifically designed to be used with a Hasselblad 6×6 medium format camera. The guy this was custom build for must’ve logged in some serious hours at his local gym prior and have the arms of Popeye the Sailor Man.

He has a collection of 4,425 antique cameras. He has collected them since 1977, and his oldest camera dates back to 1907. Going to his house, must be like entering heaven for photographers, like a kid in a candy store. Also, seasonal cleaning (every day basically) must be a hassle with all of those cameras. I wouldn’t want to be the one who does the dusting in that house. Unless I got seriously paid.

He captured this negative on the major streets in Buenos Aires. The custom-built panoramic slit camera he used was mounted to the roof of a car. Google map has nothing on this guy!

That camera went for 2,8 million at an auction in Vienna, Austria in 2012. That is the single most expensive camera ever sold in the world. Mind-blowing!

The simple and inexpensive Brownie camera was a cardbox with a wooden film carrier. It went for $ 1. The slogan was “You push the button, we do the rest”. It was named after the wildly popular cartoon series by Palmer Cox. George Eastman scored some brownie points!

The exposure time? Not more than at least 8 hours. Sure, everybody got time for that now.

A box with mirrors led to the invention of one of the greatest inventions ever (very subjectively, of course).

 

·        Chimping: When you look at your pictures on the back of the camera as soon as you’ve taken them, usually accompanied by lots of “ooo- ooohh”-ings, that’s chimping.

·        Dust Bunnies: the extremely annoying dots of sensor dust that show up in the same place in photos after photos.

·        Spray and Pray: Shooting tons of images without much attention (trigger happy), and hoping that one will turn out.

·        RTFM: A phrase which is used to yell at the people who ask multiple questions about their camera functions on internet forums. RTFM stands for “Read The Friggin’ Manual” (and yes, one of the words are censored, my mom might come across this blog).

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