Today, there are a huge number of different cameras, ranging from already obsolete film to digital SLRs. The world's first photograph was taken in 1839, January 7, thanks to Louis Jacques Dagger. He managed to get an image on silver salts. Fox Talbot invented the negative in the same year.
The history of film cameras began after the pinhole camera was invented . Initially, it was a dark room, and then became a portable box. The first photographic apparatus was invented by A.F. Grekov in Russia. In 1847, S.A. Levitsky created an emerging design. In 1854, I.F. Aleksandrovsky invented the so-called stereoscopic apparatus. Antique cameras began to appear one after another. They were improved and modernized, creating more and more new models.
History of photography
In 1885, Eastman Dry Plate Company began operations . This company produced films. And it was discovered by its talented inventor and scientist George Eastman, along with businessman Henry Strong in Rochester, USA. Eastman has patented the world's first roll of film. In 1904, well-known, probably, all the Lumiere brothers release plates to the market for color photographs under the Lumiere trademark.
In 1923, the first camera was invented, which uses the famous 35-mm film , which came to the world of photography from cinema. In 1935, Kodak released color films Kodakrom. In 1942, sales of Kodakkolor color films began. By the way, it was this film that became the most popular among amateurs and professionals for the next half century.
The advent of Polaroid cameras in 1963 turned the world of photo printing upside down. This equipment made it possible to instantly take a picture . In just a few seconds, the photo just taken appeared on a blank print. Until the early 1990s, Polaroid held a leading position in the photo industry and lost only to digital photography.
In 1980, Sony launched a digital camcorder called the Mavica on the global market . The captured frames are saved in it on a flexible floppy disk, which can be erased and rewritten many times . In 1988 , the first Fuji DS1P digital camera was officially released by Fujifilm . The camera had 16 MB of internal memory.
In 1991, Kodak replenishes the market with a digital SLR. The Kodak DCS10 1.3-megapixel camera and various, ready-made functions for easy professional photography appear. And in 1995, the company officially ceased the production of film cameras.
Soviet cameras
The large-format camera, which weighed more than one kilogram, was replaced by more modern designs, light alloys. Photography has been actively developing everywhere. In the Soviet Union, vintage cameras appeared in the 1930s.
The first serial camera was released in 1930 - it was Photocor-1. And the peak of the development of Soviet photographic equipment came in the 1950s. "FED", "Change", "Zenith" - these are the old cameras of the USSR, which have become legendary.
They began to produce Zenit on the basis of the Zorkiy camera at the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant back in 1952. The very first SLR camera was Sport, which was popular from 1935 to 1941. Nevertheless, it was the Zenit camera that won the recognition of photographers.
Kodak Camera
In 1988, the first Kodak camera appeared. In those days, it went on sale with a film for a hundred frames and cost $ 25. At that time, it was a fairly large, but affordable amount. Thus, the photo becomes available to all categories of the population. A cheap analogue with a film of only six frames and a cost of $ 1 is being launched on the market. Extra film cost only 15 cents.
Camera collectors
Many fans of technology collect cameras. Often they collect models of one year of manufacture or one manufacturer. For most rare models, demand does not subside. Today, old cameras go under the hammer for a lot of money. So, for example, the Daguerreotype Suss Brothers camera was purchased for 800 thousand US dollars . It is clear that the price depends on the demand for the model.
Did you know that:
- the first βphoto paper β was glass or copper plates on which asphalt varnish was applied;
- the prototype of a modern camera, a pinhole camera, is still used today - with its help integrated circuits are produced ;
- The first color photograph was taken by James Maxwell in 1861 ;
- the first color photograph in Russia captures L.N. Tolstoy;
- the first portrait, taken under electric light, was made by Levitsky in 1879;
- the first roller cassette, which housed 12 photosensitive sheets of paper, weighed no less - 15 kilograms!
Every year the market is replenished with new models of cameras. Today, the art of photography is available to everyone.