Why Did Cameras Have Changed?
UCL MSc Technology Management
Li, 2014
How Cameras Have Changed?
1 Introduction
A camera is a device with which users record images as well as store them. These images could be still photographs or moving images like videos or movies [1]. In this paper, camera refers to an independent device rather than the camera embedded in other electronic devices as an additional part.
Cameras evolved from the camera obscura (see Appendix 1 for the principle of the camera obscura), and have been changing continuously through many generations of photographic technology [1], including photochemical, daguerreotype, calotype, photographic film, and the sensor used in the digital cameras. The improvement of the camera technology is undoubtedly the main power …show more content…
It was not until the 1826, when Niépce introduced a sliding wooden box camera, that a camera product had been introduced to its potential consumers. Subsequent developments of photochemical technology mainly aimed to reduce the exposure time and more permanent store time of photographs in order to meet the users’ requirement.
3.2 Digitalisation
As the technology advanced, new product ideas followed. The digital camera is an astonishing little device that we all own today, which should be specialised among all the other innovations of camera since it is a disruptive one that have reshaped our idea of cameras. Most cameras in the 20th century used film which covered by photochemicals like the silver halide as a recording surface, while the modern cameras use an electronic camera sensor4. The sensor is the core component of a digital camera and it is just like the camera’s heart [14]. The development of the sensor, in a manner of speaking, is the development of the camera.
Although Michael Francis Tompsett is the first person propose the idea of using CCD5 to capture the image, it was not until 1975 that the idea had come into reality. In 1975, Kodak’s new employee …show more content…
(2014, October 23). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:54, October 25,
2014.
[2] Hirsch, Robert. (2000). Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. New York, New York:
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (page4)
[3] Johnson, William S.; Rice, Mark; Williams, Carla (2005). A History of Photography. Los Angeles,
California: Taschen America. (page36)
[4] Wenczel, Norma (2007). “Part I– Introducing an Instrument”. In Wolfgang Lefèvre. The Optical
Camera Obscura Ⅱ Images and Texts. Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projected Image (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science). (page18)
[5] Gernsheim, Helmut (1986). A Concise History of Photography (3 ed.). Mineola, New York: Dover
Publications, Inc. (page9-11, page7)
[6] Gustavson, Todd (2009). Camera: a history of photography from daguerreotype to digital. New York,
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (page6)
[7] Daguerreotype. (2014, October 22). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:01, October
25, 2014.
[8] Wade, John (1979). A Short History of the Camera. Watford: Fountain Press.
[9] George Eastman. (2014, October 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:11, October
25,
Li, 2014
How Cameras Have Changed?
1 Introduction
A camera is a device with which users record images as well as store them. These images could be still photographs or moving images like videos or movies [1]. In this paper, camera refers to an independent device rather than the camera embedded in other electronic devices as an additional part.
Cameras evolved from the camera obscura (see Appendix 1 for the principle of the camera obscura), and have been changing continuously through many generations of photographic technology [1], including photochemical, daguerreotype, calotype, photographic film, and the sensor used in the digital cameras. The improvement of the camera technology is undoubtedly the main power …show more content…
It was not until the 1826, when Niépce introduced a sliding wooden box camera, that a camera product had been introduced to its potential consumers. Subsequent developments of photochemical technology mainly aimed to reduce the exposure time and more permanent store time of photographs in order to meet the users’ requirement.
3.2 Digitalisation
As the technology advanced, new product ideas followed. The digital camera is an astonishing little device that we all own today, which should be specialised among all the other innovations of camera since it is a disruptive one that have reshaped our idea of cameras. Most cameras in the 20th century used film which covered by photochemicals like the silver halide as a recording surface, while the modern cameras use an electronic camera sensor4. The sensor is the core component of a digital camera and it is just like the camera’s heart [14]. The development of the sensor, in a manner of speaking, is the development of the camera.
Although Michael Francis Tompsett is the first person propose the idea of using CCD5 to capture the image, it was not until 1975 that the idea had come into reality. In 1975, Kodak’s new employee …show more content…
(2014, October 23). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:54, October 25,
2014.
[2] Hirsch, Robert. (2000). Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. New York, New York:
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (page4)
[3] Johnson, William S.; Rice, Mark; Williams, Carla (2005). A History of Photography. Los Angeles,
California: Taschen America. (page36)
[4] Wenczel, Norma (2007). “Part I– Introducing an Instrument”. In Wolfgang Lefèvre. The Optical
Camera Obscura Ⅱ Images and Texts. Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projected Image (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science). (page18)
[5] Gernsheim, Helmut (1986). A Concise History of Photography (3 ed.). Mineola, New York: Dover
Publications, Inc. (page9-11, page7)
[6] Gustavson, Todd (2009). Camera: a history of photography from daguerreotype to digital. New York,
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (page6)
[7] Daguerreotype. (2014, October 22). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:01, October
25, 2014.
[8] Wade, John (1979). A Short History of the Camera. Watford: Fountain Press.
[9] George Eastman. (2014, October 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:11, October
25,