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The Daguerreotypes
The Daguerreotypes and calotypes were invented after Nicephore’s death by his partner Louis Daguerre. These cameras were very simple and consisted of two nested boxes. The process of taking a photo required the photographer opening the front cover of the holder, uncapping the lens, and counting off as many minutes as the lighting conditions seemed to require before replacing the cap and closing the holder. -
Dry plates
Dry plates were invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox. This camera allowed photographers to expand their business due to the cameras slight simplicity. -
The Kodak
The Kodak was created by George Eastman and was created to help make photography more accessible to the public. -
35mm Cameras
35mm cameras were manufactured by many companies and these cameras were the first cameras to take full frame 24x36mm. These cameras were designed to be more accessible to the public but were quite costly at the time and had the ironic effect of being accessible to the public. -
TLRs
TLRs were created however, this camera was too bulky and did not achieve much success. -
SLRs
SLRs had a similar concept to TLRs, and were extremely successful with a very famous feature called eye-level viewfinder. -
Instant cameras
Instant cameras were a whole new style of cameras which would print off the photo in under a minute. Despite its large price, this camera caught on and became a crowd pleaser. -
Automation Cameras
Automation Cameras were created and sold, however, it’s extremely large price (for the time) $225, (today terms - $3789) made it hard for this camera to succeed, and it didn’t. -
Digital Cameras
Digital cameras started to become the new “Thing” without printed images. Instead, these cameras had images saved and stored onto a sd card. From 1960 to now, cameras developed around the concept of digital cameras and all the technology evolved as time passed. -
Improved Digital Cameras
Today people try to get image quality and features as top quality as possible.
