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From 1839, the year, when the invention of photography was being published, came objective optics and from 1840 complete cameras for photography. The Voigtländer objectives were revolutionary because they were the first mathematically calculated precision objectives in the history of photography, developed by the Austro-Hungarian/Slovak mathematics professor Josef Maximilian Petzval, with ...
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 first zoom lens for still cameras was the Voigtländer-Zoomar 36-82mm f/2.8 (USA/West Germany) of 1959, [97] for Voigtländer Bessamatic series (1959, West Germany) 35mm leaf shutter SLRs. [98] It was designed by Zoomar in the United States and manufactured by Kilfitt in West Germany for Voigtländer. [ 99 ]
The Petzval objective, or Petzval lens, is the first photographic portrait objective lens (with a 160 mm focal length) in the history of photography. [1] It was developed by the Slovak mathematics professor Joseph Petzval in 1840 in Vienna , [ 2 ] with technical advice provided by Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer [ de ] .
1959 Voigtländer Bessamatic, fitted with DKL-mount Zoomar lens (36~82 mm, f /2.8), first production zoom lens for still photography. The Zoomar lens was the first commercially successful zoom lens, designed by optical engineer Frank G. Back as an outgrowth of his research on viewfinders and variable focal length projectors for the United ...
Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant camera. 1949 – The Contax S camera is introduced, the first 35 mm SLR camera with a pentaprism eye-level viewfinder. 1952 – Bwana Devil, a low-budget polarized 3-D film, premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest in 1953 and fades away during 1954.
If your employee came to you in 1975 and told you he'd invented the digital camera, what would you do? If you were Kodak, the answer was to effectively shove him in a closet and hope the product ...
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]