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Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation built the production model of the T-2 and T-2A four-lens camera, which improved upon the T-1 tri-lens mapping camera developed by Maj. James Bagley of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The T-2A had one vertical lens and three oblique lenses set at 35 degrees, which provided a 120-degree field of view at right ...
Within a decade of being introduced in America, 3 general forms of camera were in popular use: the American- or chamfered-box camera, the Robert's-type camera or "Boston box", and the Lewis-type camera. The American-box camera had beveled edges at the front and rear, and an opening in the rear where the formed image could be viewed on ground glass.
Some camera makers design lenses but outsource manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to sell under their own brand name. A few companies are only in the lens business. 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.
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.
The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 or 1827 [1] View of the Boulevard du Temple, first photograph including a person (on pavement at lower left), by Daguerre, 1838 First durable color photograph, 1861 An 1877 photographic color print on paper by Louis Ducos du Hauron. The irregular edges of the superimposed cyan ...
The camera also had the rare ability to allow selection between frame sizes (horizontal 24×36 mm or vertical 18×24 mm) between frames on the same roll of film. The camera used a mechanical "trap-needle" autoexposure system controlled by an external CdS meter that read light directly (not through-the-lens). [211] [339] [340] [341] 1967
TLR cameras, SLR cameras, folding cameras, CCD and SLR camera lenses, large-format cameras Sigma: Japan: Compact digital cameras and SD-series DSLRs Sony: Japan: Cyber-shot compact digital cameras, α DSLRs, and Sony NEX MILCs Tevion: Germany: Compact digital cameras and trail cameras Thomson: France: Waterproof digital camera Traveler: Germany ...
Minox (pronounced / ˈ m iː n ɒ k s / MEE-noks) is a manufacturer of cameras, known especially for its subminiature camera.. The first product to carry the Minox name was a subminiature camera, conceived in 1922, and finally produced in 1936, by Baltic German Walter Zapp. [1]