Modern cameras

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To this day people are still using the polaroid camera which although it was invented in 1948, old cameras such as this one are constantly coming back into fashion, but they update them with colours and lights to make them more modern.
There isn't much difference between modern cameras and olden cameras, the basis is the same but every year new cameras come out and they are always faster, have more features, more colours, longer battery, longer memory and so many more features to call it new.
 
In the past ten years one of the biggest things they have created was wireless cameras, so people could download there photos onto a computer without having to plug it into the computer, which makes it easier to share photos with friends and post online etc.
 
in the 1990's cameras were installed into phones, this was an idea made possible my a man called Eric Fossum from Connecticut United States, when he made the pixel sensor he called it a "camera on a chip". this has definitely been one of the most rewarding things about technology that lets everybody enjoy photography.


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Ever since they invented the phone camera it has been a constant race between android and iPhone competitors about who can produce the best quality images, the fastest camera, different features such as slow motion, timelapse, panoramas etc.

Becoming a hobby

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Everyday you will hundreds off tourists wandering around your city with their cameras, phones, selfie sticks etc. and you don't even realise that they are there or how many photographs are being taken around you.
There is a fine line between calling yourself an amateur photographer and taking a few nice photographs on your phone every now and then.
in the 1900's if you owned a camera (usually a Kodak brownie) then you would be considered an amateur photographer.
Now there are different clubs people join.
People take classes to learn more, there are always new techniques to taking a photograph, different filters you can add and ever since 1987 when Thomas Knoll who lives in Michigan USA invented photoshop, I believe that photoshop has effected photography in both a positive and negative way, I think in a positive way it has because now it can bring fantasies alive and can make things even more beautiful then they already are eg.


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Now because of photoshopping photography people can now get paid to photoshop and this has become a hobby of its own. You can clearly see hobbies have branched off from photography certain ones such as:
-Collecting cameras, or collecting photographs
-Taking photos of specific things, such as plants, bridges, skys,
-Taking photos using the same colour for each one
-Photoshopping

Back in the 1900's amateur photographers joined groups to discuss how photography should be considered an art, because there were so many people that didn't think so because you weren't creating anything from scratch like with a brush and paint, so these amateur photographers wanted to discuss it together, and this led them to meet up and take photographs as a group and share their own individual work, making it a worldwide hobby that is carried on today.

Taking off

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I wanted to look at which camera really made amateur photography begin. 

The first camera that was put on the market for amateur photography was known as the "Kodak", it was available in 1888, it was created by George Eastman and even though it took quite a long time since the creation of the first photograph in 1829, the reason it took so long was because of photographic film.
Before Eastman came along, a lot of people would of found film to be a hassle because often they would have to carry around more then one type of camera filled with their different types of film eg. print film or reversal film, so Eastman created a smaller camera(the Kodak) with roll film, so it was cheaper for amateur photographers to own and they had more access to technology also it would have been easier to carry their equipment around.

He was born in New York and it is clear that a lot of photographic discoveries were taken in the United States through out time. They were always pushing to discover something new eg:
- Photo of a tornado- South Dakota
- First photo of an animal at night- Michigan
- First photo of the north pole- Taken by American Robert Peary
- First archaeology photos- Taken by American Hiram Bingham

The first Kodak was a simple box that came with a roll of film in it and after you filled the roll you would send it off to get your photographs printed and then you could start again.


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The next big invention after this was the Kodak Brownie, which is what everybody then used, it was invented in 1900 and the thing people loved about it was you could reload it yourself and this was the camera that people used around the home and on vacation to take "snap shots".

Small bit of history about the inventor and photography

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The first ever "permanent image" (later called a photograph) was taken in 1826 and it took 8hours of exposure before it actually became a photo because up until then all of the images that had been taken were disappearing when placed in any light.

I though it would be a good idea to start the blog by telling you about where photography actually began by learning about the person who introduced us to photography.
So there won't be any confusion I am going to be saying the first photograph ever taken was in 1826 because this is the very first photo that still exists today and photography has progressed from the method of taking this photo, because there were technically other photos taken before that such as "sun photos" in 1800 but if exposed to strong light it wouldn't stay. So they created a different method that led us to the modern photography that we have today.

France was where the first photo was taken, Burgundy to be precise. There was a man called Nicéphore Niépce who created the permanent image (like I was talking about earlier) who lived in France, he was an inventor and photography was definitely his greatest invention.
Niépce grew up with a good education and he was born and raised in a wealthy family which probably gave him an advantage because whenever he failed to create a photograph he could afford to have another go and try again


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The image I have linked above is the longest existing photograph that is around today, this was taken by Niépce and he called it "view from the window at le gras".

What we will learn

Hey everyone, In this blog I want you all to be able to learn with me about the geography of photography. Below I'll quickly list everything I want to complete in my 5 weeks of blogging and then we can see where we are after that!

 

1. Where did the creator of the camera live and what kind of people were they? eg. their lifestyle

2. What made people interested in photography? How did it take off

3. How did it become a hobby where people could join clubs, learn and share exotic photos from all over the world

4. Getting cameras put into phones, making photography modern and a part of our everyday lives

5. the future of photography, what will they create to enhance the activity?

Hi, my name is Sarah Brown and this is the start of my transition year blog on photography.