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Archive for January, 2010

Single Use Cameras

ü  Contains a roll of color film which is encased into a recyclable cardboard container

ü  Has fixed focused lens and also has a single shutter

ü  Water resistant

ü  Built-in flash

ü  The camera is recycled

ü  Costs about $15.00

ü  Not to be used for serious photography such as formal and professional pictures

ü  Suitable for taking pictures in vacation, hangouts, and other more types of human’s informal activities

Compact Lens-Shutter Cameras

ü  Has 3 variations such as the:

• Zoom length
• Dual focal length
• Single focal length

ü  Has fixed subject focus which produces sharp images as it starts capturing at least 5 feet away and then more

ü  Features red eye reduction

ü  Built-in flash

ü  And other more types of shooting modes

Bridge Cameras

ü  Intermediate type of camera

ü  Bridges gap between the point and shoot

ü  Has several types of lenses

ü  Has red eye reducing feature

ü  Has limited range of lens that can be used with this kind of camera

Rangefinders

ü  Are often used for serious photography due to the fact that these types of cameras are lightweight and compact

ü  Has interchangeable lenses

ü  Controllable exposure, focusing, lens aperture, and shutter speed

ü  Has limited focal length in a range of 21mm up to 135mm

Twin Lens Reflex

ü  A medium format type of camera that uses large films that reaches up to 35mm

ü  Fitted with 2 lenses which both have the same focal length

ü  1 mounted on the top of the other

ü  Lower lenses focus its images directly on the film

ü  The image captured by this camera is directly reflected through 90 degrees via mirror

ü  Focuses on horizontal ground glass screen

ü  Has equal film and screen film to produce an equally sharp image

Single Lens Reflex

ü  Requires only 1 lens to create and view a photo

ü  Offers total control and exposure to the focus

ü  Accepts interchangeable lenses

ü  Has add on flashes

ü  Motor drives

ü  Has  auto focus

ü  Has various number of picture taking modes

ü  Typically used by expert and professional photographers

Today, most of the camera makers and distributors are vying for being on the niche of the being the most efficient camera makers. One of the most efficient ways on making their dreams to become a certain reality is through rendering superlative camera system specifications. However, due to the intense market competition, most of the camera developments are overlapping each other. That is there is a continuous development cycle in the cameras today. Among all the highly developed cameras today, there is one camera that had caused international panic and it is none other than the Daguerreotype camera which is discovered inside a dusty attic. Daguerreotype camera is wooden sliding box type of camera which was produced during the year 1839 by the Paris Company Susse Freres. It was discovered as a part of Germany’s inheritance. This antique camera will serve as the access for photography enthusiasts in rewriting the history. On May 26, Westlicht which is a private photo gallery and auction house Vienna plans to auction this memorabilia. This camera is believed as the globe’s oldest commercially created wooden camera. The said camera has not yet been restored according to Westlicht. The Daguerreotype camera belongs to a certain US-based scholar which had been inherited from his father. His father was believed to be a technical photography professor at the Munich University. The wooden sliding box camera was invented by certain French chemist Lois Daguerre. The Daguerreotype camera is an early model of photograph. This camera is able to produce a direct image on a fully furnished silver surface which bears a coating a of silver halide particles. The said photograph is deposited with iodine bromide and or by chlorine vapors. On the early days, there was no copies of pictures so it only means that each and every pictures before are made originally. This fact is totally a great difference today where most of the pictures are recopied. The technical specifications of the Daguerreotype camera are as follows: •    No carrying case •    No battery camera •    No information on GPS EXIF •    No Noise reduction •    No Image stabilization •    No Image stabilization •    No Red-eye reduction •    No image Autofocus •    No Zoom •    1 Lens cap •    1 Free top hat with every camera sold (probably) •    1 Black curtain •    1 Tripod •    1 gazillion Megapixels