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    This document provides a history of photography from its studio origins in the mid-1800s through the development of consumer cameras in the 1900s and digital photography in the 1990s. As cameras became smaller and more affordable, photography moved out of professional studios and into the hands of everyday people. Key developments included Kodak introducing the Brownie snapshooter camera for $1 in 1900, popularizing amateur photography, and the first digital camera in 1990, marking a transition to digital. The document also covers different types of film cameras like rangefinders and single-lens reflex and how shutter speed and aperture control exposure.

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    This document provides a history of photography from its studio origins in the mid-1800s through the development of consumer cameras in the 1900s and digital photography in the 1990s. As cameras became smaller and more affordable, photography moved out of professional studios and into the hands of everyday people. Key developments included Kodak introducing the Brownie snapshooter camera for $1 in 1900, popularizing amateur photography, and the first digital camera in 1990, marking a transition to digital. The document also covers different types of film cameras like rangefinders and single-lens reflex and how shutter speed and aperture control exposure.

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    This document provides a history of photography from its studio origins in the mid-1800s through the development of consumer cameras in the 1900s and digital photography in the 1990s. As cameras became smaller and more affordable, photography moved out of professional studios and into the hands of everyday people. Key developments included Kodak introducing the Brownie snapshooter camera for $1 in 1900, popularizing amateur photography, and the first digital camera in 1990, marking a transition to digital. The document also covers different types of film cameras like rangefinders and single-lens reflex and how shutter speed and aperture control exposure.

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    This document provides a history of photography from its studio origins in the mid-1800s through the development of consumer cameras in the 1900s and digital photography in the 1990s. As cameras became smaller and more affordable, photography moved out of professional studios and into the hands of everyday people. Key developments included Kodak introducing the Brownie snapshooter camera for $1 in 1900, popularizing amateur photography, and the first digital camera in 1990, marking a transition to digital. The document also covers different types of film cameras like rangefinders and single-lens reflex and how shutter speed and aperture control exposure.

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    Early photography was dominated by studio work with large cameras and long exposures. As cameras became smaller and film more accessible, photography moved outside the studio and into everyday life.

    In the late 1800s and early 1900s, cameras were large and cumbersome, limiting photography mainly to studio work. As cameras became smaller and exposures faster, photography became more portable and snapshots outside the studio became possible.

    The development of smaller and cheaper cameras like the Kodak (1888) and Brownie (1900) helped popularize photography among non-professionals. Innovations like roll film and snapshot cameras helped everyday people easily document their lives.

    Camera Parts &

    Functions
    Camera Types
    Camera Body
    Camera Lens
    How do they work together?

    studio traditions
    From its beginning in the
    mid 1800s into the 20th
    century photography was
    dominated by studio work.

    Cameras were large,


    exposures long, and film
    existed in plates or sheets
    all of this limited the ability of
    the photographer in terms of
    subject matter and location.

    As cameras became smaller


    a n d p h o t o g r ap hy m o re
    accessible in terms of
    equipment and initial
    investment, more people
    experimented with the
    medium. Portraiture left the
    studio and the hands of the
    professional and entered the
    lives of everyday people. The
    idea of the snapshot was
    developed by Kodak in 1900.

    1888 Eastman introduces the Kodak camera


    1900 Eastman Kodak releases the Brownie for $1,
    introducing the idea of the snapshot

    1925 Leica produces the first


    mass-market 35mm camera

    1930 Flashbulbs are first commercially available


    1935 Kodak introduces Kodachrome

    1936 First 35mm Single


    Lens Reflex camera

    1947 Edwin
    Land releases the
    Polaroid Camera

    1963 Kodak introduces the Instamatic


    with easy loading film, the most popular
    amateur camera
    1972 The Polaroid SX-70
    is released and sold for
    $180 and $6.90 for a pack
    of 10 photos, selling
    700,000 in two years.

    1985 Minolta releases the first


    consumer autofocus camera

    1990 First commercially available


    digital camera, the Dycam Model 1
    1992 On July 18th the first
    photograph is uploaded to the
    World Wide Web

    1997 On June 11th Philippe Kahn


    shared the first picture via a cell phone
    of his daughters birth

    Major Camera Types

    1. Rangefinder
    -35mm film
    -Simpler construction
    -smaller & lightweight, quiet
    -good quality images
    -what you see through the
    viewfinder is not exactly
    what you get in the final
    image

    2. Single-lens Reflex
    -35mm film
    -more complex than the
    rangefinder.
    -easily transported &
    lightweighta bit heavier
    than a rangefinder
    -good quality images
    -whatever the lens sees, the
    photographer sees

    take up spool

    camera back
    viewfinder

    sprockets
    viewfinder
    film
    compartment

    prism
    aperture
    pressure plate
    rewind release
    button
    tripod mount
    shutter

    film advance lever


    shutter
    button
    aperture ring

    lens

    shutter speed dial


    hot shoe

    reflex mirror
    shutter
    film
    film rewind
    2

    2.8

    5.6

    11

    16

    22

    1 2 4 8 15 30 60 125 250 500 1000

    The shutter speed controls the amount of light reaching the film and
    creatively whether a moving subject is frozen or blurred.

    Aperture Sizes, Lens Openings, & f/Stops


    The aperture controls the amount of light passing through the
    lens to the film.

    Knowing when you have a correct reading

    Summary

    Remember
    The shutter controls the amount of light reaching the film
    whether a moving subject is frozen or blurred.
    The aperture controls the amount of light reaching the film and
    the depth of field.

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