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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 ...
There is not a very clear distinguishing line between camera producers and lens producers; many companies do both, or have done both at one time or another. Some camera manufacturers sell lenses made by others as their own, in an OEM arrangement. Some camera makers design lenses but outsource manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to ...
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.
The successful "Imperial Triple Extension" model was introduced in 1913 and continued in production until the 1930s. During the First World War, the company produced a number of cameras for military use, including the Mark III Hythe gun camera. In 1921, the company merged with several others to form Amalgamated Photographic Manufacturers.
Turner was a soldier with the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. 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]
Advertisement for Ansco Speedex Film, 1920. The company was founded in 1842 (pre-dating Kodak in the photography business) as E. Anthony & Co. (later E. and H. T. Anthony & Company, when Edward Anthony's brother officially joined the business) and became the Anthony & Scovill Co. in 1901, after a merger with the camera business of Scovill Manufacturing (Connecticut), founded by James Mitchell ...
Pentacon is the modern-day successor to Dresden camera firms such as Zeiss Ikon; for many years Dresden was the world's largest producer of cameras. Previous brands of the predecessor firms included Praktica, Exa, Pentacon, Zeiss Ikon, Contax (now owned by the Carl Zeiss company), Ica, Ernemann, Exakta , Praktiflex, and many more.
Pigeon with German miniature camera, probably during the First World War. Pigeon photography is an aerial photography technique invented in 1907 by the German apothecary Julius Neubronner, who also used pigeons to deliver medications.