By: Stephanie Montalvo Martinez

 a boxlike device for holding a film or plate sensitive to light, having an aperture controlled by a shutter that, when opened, admits light enabling an object to be focused, usually by means of a lens, on the film or plate, thereby producing a photographic image.  Camera made of three basic elements: an optical element (the lens), some with a chemical element (the film) and a mechanical element (the camera body itself)  calibrating and combining these elements in such a way that they record a crisp, recognizable image makes up different cameras

 The first Obscura Camera was invented by Alhazen (1500)  Daguerreotype Camera (1839)  First American patent :Alexander Wolcott(1840)  Panoramic camera patented: Thomas Sutton(1859)  Roll-film Kodak and First mass-marketed camera ; the Brownie was patented: George Eastman( )  Raise-camera (travel camera) (1900)  35mm still camera: Oskar Barnack( )

 Polaroid camera: Edwin Land (1948)  Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot(1978)  the Sony Mavica – the world’s first digital electronic still camera (1981)  Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (1991)  First digital cameras for home :Apple QuickTake 100 camera( )  Japane Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone(2000)  Canon EOS 5D first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor(2005)

 Single Use Cameras  Point and Shoot  Compact Lens-Shutter Cameras  Polaroid  Bridge Cameras  Rangefinders  Twin Lens Reflex  SLR (Single Lens Reflex)  DSLR (Digital Lens Reflex)

 Simplest cameras  Contain a roll of color film encased in a recyclable cardboard box  Single shutter speed and a fixed-focus lens  Features : built-in flash and water resistance  Recyclable  Price range: $3-$15

 Best selling  Easy use for non-photographers  Auto-Focus, flash, viewfinder  No add on pieces  Instant preview

 3 varieties: single focal length, dual focal length, and zoom  fixed focus: focus is fixed at a point that produces sharp images starting from about 5 ft. away and continuing to infinity  Infrared auto focusing.  red-eye reduction flash  Couple automatic shooting modes

 Intermediate cameras.  Bridge the gap between "point and shoot" cameras and complex cameras  Different lenses  Red-eye reducing flash  Limited range of lens focal length

 Compact  Lightweight  Uses: serious photography  Interchangeable lenses  Control: shutter speed, lens aperture, focusing, and exposure  Disadvantages: limited in focal length (ranging from 21mm-135mm) and expensive

 Medium-format camera  Two lenses: Top and Bottom  Viewfinder Lens on top  Shooting Lens on bottom  Reflex mirror

 One lens: viewing and creating the photo  Full manual control  Interchangeable lenses  Flash  AF (auto focus) available  Different modes  Professional photographers

PAST PRESENT  Analogue  Film  Non-Editable  Huge wooden box form  Inconvenient  Set up Required  Digital  Memory Card  Editable on web programs  Smaller  Convinient  Phones  Upload

 Compact  Memory  Voice Command  Every day items  Extra Battery power  Senses

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