-Chinese & Greeks knew principals of optics and the camera in 4th-5th century

-Camera Obscura: (Dark Room)

-Unknown inventor

-Box with a hole on one side

-Receives light from its surroundings and projects it on a surface

-Image projected upside down but with color and perspective

-Wood box or empty room

-George Eastman

-Cameras too bulky, heavy, not user friendly

-1888 invented KODAK® camera with film rolls

-Revolutionized camera industry

-Made photography available to all

-First Color Film

-Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky

-1935 invented KODACHROME, first colored film

-Polaroid® invented in 1848

-Instant Cameras

-Traditional methods too long

-Invented by Erwin Land

-Digital Cameras

-Invented by Steve Sasson in 1975

-8 lb. camera recording 0.01 megapixels

-First photograph took 23 seconds

-Quickly capture images to be saved

-Hasselblad® H4D-200MS Camera

-Released September 2011

-$45,000

-Combines 6 shots in 1

-200 megapixels

-Modern Features

-Zoom lenses

-Face detection -Auto Focus

-Memory Card

-Video

-3D Capability

(200,000,000 pixels)

Used for:

-Art-Science

-Recording Memories-Entertainment-Advertising-Security

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