Camera History And Evolution

Photography history and the evolution of the camera as we know them today is kind of similar to that in the sense that the very first versions of the camera although considered ingenious in their time had been very crude instruments of photography compared to the advanced and even smart cameras that people have today.

Camera history and evolution. How the camera has evolved. When mozi a chinese philosopher observed rays of light falling on the walls of a darkened room through a pinhole made on the opposite side he saw the world outside as upside down. It is a box with a small hole in it through which light travels and strikes a reflective surface to project an image in color upside down. The history of the camera begins even before the introduction of photography.

This camera opened up an entire world of new possibilities for photographers and audiences. A short history and evolution of camera from plain box to sophisticated pen. The pinhole camera and camera obscura. 1500 the pinhole camera.

Camera obscura the first pinhole camera was invented by ibn al haytham. From plain old square box when camera was just an old square box to the most sophisticated form of spy pen camera. Ancestors of the photographic camera both camera obscura and the pinhole camera date to back to the ancient greeks and chinese. The evolution of the camera 1500 camera obscura used a pinhole to project erse image when light passed through the 1839 aperture daguerreotype camera first publicly announced photographic process and the first to come into widespread use 1844 the megaskop first camera to take a panoramic image 1900 the kodak brownie 1900 popularized low cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot the raisecamera the first light weight portable camera 1925 the.

The evolution of the camera. The camera gopro made a decade ago came a long way from 20 analog in a waterproof case to a device people in film industry use today. First american patent issued in photography to alexander wolcott for his camera. The camera obscura was originally used to observe solar events and in drawing architecture.

In fact chinese philosopher mozi who lived during the han dynasty circa 468 circa 391 bc was the first person to write down the principles of camera obscura. 1841 william henry talbot patents the calotype process the first negative positive process making possible the first multiple copies. Since then the hero line of cameras has become the standard in the now widespread market of action cameras. Lytro introduced the first light field camera to the general public in 2012.