The Technology of A Camera.
When I first read the assignment for the next blog for class I thought, perfect I could talk about something unique and interesting. I was all ready to do my blog on the technology of a vacuum... when I started to research. So when I couldn't find enough information about a vacuum I decided to switch my topic to hair straighteners and again I ran into the same lack of information issue. Still keeping with the fact that I wanted to write about something unique I decided to write about the technology of a camera, and finally I found the information I needed to complete the assignment.A camera is a device thats main purpose is to capture images, either as still photographs or moving images used to make movies or films. The term camera comes from Camera Obscura, which is Latin for "Dark Chamber". A camera generally consists of an enclosed hollow with an opening called an apeture at one end to let light in and a recording surface for capturing the light on the other end. Cameras were first used in ancient times, the camera obscuras were used to form images on walls in darkened rooms, through the pinhole cameras. The image quality of the pictures that the pinhole camera produced were not the best but the image quality began to improve throughout the 16th century. Through the help of Professor J. Schulze with his accidental creation of the first photo- sensitive compound the history of the camera soon began. As time continued influencial people influenced the invention of the camera with people such as, Thomas Wedgewood, Nicephore Neipce, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Daguerre, Fredrick Scott Archer, Richard Leach Maddox, George Eastman and invention of the first Kodak Brownie Box, with a few other inventors along the way the camera developed into the great piece of technology we know today.
Within the camera there are even further pieces of technology, every single part is a piece of technology. The shutter, the lens and how light is used, even the film is a piece of technology.
There are many different types of cameras today, today there are cameras in phones or even cameras that look through clothes that check for explosives, drugs and weapons. (Although these cameras look through clothes they do not show any physical details or subject people to harmful radiation, which further shows the technology used within cameras.) There are cameras that are used for traffic control, to broadcast news or even for security purposes.
When talking about the 'cultural impact' with the invention of the camera has had I do not think there is an affect on a specific culture per say. Although I do know that the invention of the camera has had a major impact on our entire world today, you can walk out of your house and almost everyone around you owns a camera, weather it be within a phone or a handheld camera. Either way cameras are all around us, in ways that we don't even know it. I found this quote from one of the teenage dramas, One Tree Hill that I watch and it got me thinking.
"You ever look a picture of yourself, and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many moments of other peoples life have we been in. Were we a part of someone's life when their dream came true or were we there when their dream died. Did we keep trying to get in? As if we were somehow destined to be there or did the shot take us by surprise. Just think, you could be a big part of someone elses life, and not even know it."
And it just gives a further example of how cameras and technology have further influenced us today.
- Brittany.*
posted by Brittany Pacitti's Mass Communications @ 8:44 AM
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