1837 - daguerreotype
Plate cameras from 11 x 14 to 2 1/4 x 3 1/4
1840 - calotype
1851 - wet plate collodion process
1880 - the dry plate
1884 - B&W film (Eastman)
Sheet film cameras from 11 x 14 to 2 1/4 x 3 1/4
1885 - Flexible photographic film (Eastman, coated paper)
1889 - Transparent plastic film
Roll Film Cameras
1908 - Color (Lippman Plate)
1913 - First production 35mm camera, Homeos, a stereo camera (2x half
frame)
and first big selling half frame camera, American
Tourist Multiple
1914 - First Full Frame 35mm camera, the Simplex
1923 - First Production run of Leica cameras (30 units)
1932 - Agfacolor
1934 - Kodak 135 daylight loading cassette
1935 - Kodachrome 135 film
1936 - Agfacolor Neue (all other 'chrome' film) 135 film
1936 - Exacta 35mm (slr waist level)
1949 - Contax S (first Pentaprism 35mm)
1952 - Pentax Asahiflex (slr waist level)
1957 - Asahi Pentax (pentaprism slr)
1963 - Polaroid
1964 - Pentax 'Spotmatic'
1981 - Sony Mavica Video to disc (analog stills) Digital
Capture Begins
1990 - Kodak DCS 100 Digital to DRAM (1.3 megapixels)($20,000
modified Nikon F3)
1993 - Kodak DCS-40 - a Kodak designed plastic bodied 1.3 MP digital
still camera I won at MacWorld's User Group Breakfast lottery!
A short history of how and why we've gone from the art and tedium of
one-off plate photography to the shoot 'em up days of digital.
Now the art and tedium has shifted to post processing.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
On Oct 27, 2008, at 09:48 , frank theriault wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Jaume Lahuerta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I remember when digital was starting, some praised film because
"with film you don't just shoot as if you were using a machine gun
but you think before acting..."
Well, obviously this is an outdated discourse...
;-)
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