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Camera Parts, Types, and Functions

This document provides a history of photography from its studio origins in the mid-1800s through the development of consumer cameras in the 1900s and digital photography in the 1990s. As cameras became smaller and more affordable, photography moved out of professional studios and into the hands of everyday people. Key developments included Kodak introducing the Brownie snapshooter camera for $1 in 1900, popularizing amateur photography, and the first digital camera in 1990, marking a transition to digital. The document also covers different types of film cameras like rangefinders and single-lens reflex and how shutter speed and aperture control exposure.

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Camera Parts, Types, and Functions

This document provides a history of photography from its studio origins in the mid-1800s through the development of consumer cameras in the 1900s and digital photography in the 1990s. As cameras became smaller and more affordable, photography moved out of professional studios and into the hands of everyday people. Key developments included Kodak introducing the Brownie snapshooter camera for $1 in 1900, popularizing amateur photography, and the first digital camera in 1990, marking a transition to digital. The document also covers different types of film cameras like rangefinders and single-lens reflex and how shutter speed and aperture control exposure.

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Camera Parts &

Functions
Camera Types
Camera Body
Camera Lens
How do they work together?

studio traditions
From its beginning in the
mid 1800s into the 20th
century photography was
dominated by studio work.

Cameras were large,


exposures long, and film
existed in plates or sheets
all of this limited the ability of
the photographer in terms of
subject matter and location.

As cameras became smaller


a n d p h o t o g r ap hy m o re
accessible in terms of
equipment and initial
investment, more people
experimented with the
medium. Portraiture left the
studio and the hands of the
professional and entered the
lives of everyday people. The
idea of the snapshot was
developed by Kodak in 1900.

1888 Eastman introduces the Kodak camera


1900 Eastman Kodak releases the Brownie for $1,
introducing the idea of the snapshot

1925 Leica produces the first


mass-market 35mm camera

1930 Flashbulbs are first commercially available


1935 Kodak introduces Kodachrome

1936 First 35mm Single


Lens Reflex camera

1947 Edwin
Land releases the
Polaroid Camera

1963 Kodak introduces the Instamatic


with easy loading film, the most popular
amateur camera
1972 The Polaroid SX-70
is released and sold for
$180 and $6.90 for a pack
of 10 photos, selling
700,000 in two years.

1985 Minolta releases the first


consumer autofocus camera

1990 First commercially available


digital camera, the Dycam Model 1
1992 On July 18th the first
photograph is uploaded to the
World Wide Web

1997 On June 11th Philippe Kahn


shared the first picture via a cell phone
of his daughters birth

Major Camera Types

1. Rangefinder
-35mm film
-Simpler construction
-smaller & lightweight, quiet
-good quality images
-what you see through the
viewfinder is not exactly
what you get in the final
image

2. Single-lens Reflex
-35mm film
-more complex than the
rangefinder.
-easily transported &
lightweighta bit heavier
than a rangefinder
-good quality images
-whatever the lens sees, the
photographer sees

take up spool

camera back
viewfinder

sprockets
viewfinder
film
compartment

prism
aperture
pressure plate
rewind release
button
tripod mount
shutter

film advance lever


shutter
button
aperture ring

lens

shutter speed dial


hot shoe

reflex mirror
shutter
film
film rewind
2

2.8

5.6

11

16

22

1 2 4 8 15 30 60 125 250 500 1000

The shutter speed controls the amount of light reaching the film and
creatively whether a moving subject is frozen or blurred.

Aperture Sizes, Lens Openings, & f/Stops


The aperture controls the amount of light passing through the
lens to the film.

Knowing when you have a correct reading

Summary

Remember
The shutter controls the amount of light reaching the film
whether a moving subject is frozen or blurred.
The aperture controls the amount of light reaching the film and
the depth of field.

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