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The German science, trade and industry magazine Prometheus, in a 1905 article about aerial photography from tethered balloons and kites, notes their recent use during the Russo-Japanese War when the Russian Topographical Institute in St. Petersburg had the Heinrich Ernemann Camera Manufacturing Company build special equipment for automatic ...
Aeroscope (1910) Geoffrey Malins with aeroscope camera during World War I Aeroscope was a type of compressed air camera for making films, constructed by Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński in 1909 (French patent from 10 April 1909) and built in England since 1911, [1] at first by Newman & Sinclair, [2] and from 1912 by Cherry Kearton Limited.
The first consumer camera with a liquid crystal display on the back was the Casio QV-10 developed by a team led by Hiroyuki Suetaka in 1995. The first camera to use CompactFlash was the Kodak DC-25 in 1996. [52] The first camera that offered the ability to record video clips may have been the Ricoh RDC-1 in 1995.
Top: Sectional view of patented pigeon camera with two lenses. Bottom: Pneumatic system. The camera was activated by inflating the chamber on the left. As the air slowly escaped through the capillary at the bottom, the piston moved back towards the left until it triggered the exposure. The patented camera with cuirass and harness
While in Europe he smuggled [1] a German-built 2 in × 3 in (51 mm × 76 mm) format camera with him and took approximately 99 photographs from the war zone. After the war, Turner returned to Prince Edward Island, married and took up farming in Knutsford. [2] He died 6 October, 1989 at 100 years of age.
The machine gun emerged as a decisive weapon during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general.
Vest Pocket Kodak with f /7.7 Anastigmat lens, opened and front support deployed. The Vest Pocket Kodak (VPK), also known as the Soldier's Kodak, is a line of compact folding cameras introduced by Eastman Kodak in April 1912 and produced until 1934, when it was succeeded by the Kodak Bantam.
Some camera companies make no lenses, but usually at least sell a lens from some lens maker with their cameras as part of a package. Note that many optical instruments such as microscopes , telescopes , spotting scopes and so forth can be used as photographic lenses; manufacturers of these types of equipment are not included here (unless they ...