1. History of a Camera
By: Cynthia Anderson

2. If your eye is a window to your soul, then your
camera is surely a doorway to your heart?-
Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray

3. What is a Camera?
~A device for recording visual images in the
form of photographs, movie film, or video
signals.

4. Types of Cameras
~SLR=Single Lens Reflex
~DSLR=Digital Single Lens Reflex
~P&S=Point and shoot cameras

5. SLR and DSLR Cameras
Gives the photographer the Freedom to take
picture that most point and shoot cameras
can't do.

6. First Camera and Image
~First photographic image was taken with a
"Camera Obscura" (1814)
-Shutter was open for eight hours and faded
shortly afterwards
-Was taken by Frenchman Joseph Nicephore
Niepce

7. 1843- The first advertisement using a photograph is
made in Philadelphia

8. 1859-The panoramic camera is patented in Sutton

9. 1884-Flexible, paper based photographic film is invented
by company "Eastman"

10. 1913-1914-The first 35mm still camera is developed

11. 1954-Eastman Kodak develops hi-speed tri-x film

12. 1968-The first ever literally "out of this world"

13. 1978-Konica invents the point and shoot autofocus
camera

14. Different Types of
Cameras

15. Old Fashion

16. Today Cameras

17. Random Facts

18. *Two types of cameras: Old Fashioned film and digital
cameras

19. *All cameras are boxes that capture light

20. *Our disposable camera is equivalent to the box cameras

21. *Most photographers want their perfection in their
work, rather than their equipment

22. *Every camera does the work it is designed to do, but
maybe not to the same quality wanted

23. Your camera should become an extension of
your heart. This means that it must fit
comfortably with your lifestyle, be
responsive rather than a burden, understand
your moods, always be reliable and ever at
the service of your soul.-Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray

24. Work Cited!!
• http://photography.about.com/od/cameratypes/a/PointAndShoot.htm
• http://pebblesfromparadise.com/introduction-to-cameras/
• http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01824/
• http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/cameras.html
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/camera.html#io0ThCsK2gGtZg8k.9
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• http://www.ehow.com/about_5401919_history-camera.html