Digital cameras have become massively popular over the years, and there is a wide selection to choose from. The specifications vary on each different model, and the price scale can be somewhat of a mystery too. For photography experts, there is the option to purchase the all singing all dancing models, but the price will reflect the specifications. However for the everyday user you can still find relatively inexpensive digital cameras with all the features and specifications that you need to take a really fantastic shot. Cameras have been around for many years, the first ever photograph that was taken was back in 1814, and it was taken using a sliding wooden box camera, made by Charles, and Vincent Chevalier in Paris. This may have been the first photograph that was taken but history notes cameras as early as the 1500’s. The beginning of photographs was heralded by a discovery made by John Heinrich Schultz in 1724, that when a silver and chalk mixture was under exposure to light, the mixture darkens. The earliest cameras were room sized with room for one or two people inside. Cameras evolved in the following years and the first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical was built by John Zhan in 1685, although it would be almost 150 years later before such an application was possible. George Eastman was the pioneer of photographic film and, in 1885, he manufactured paper film, before switching to celluloid in 1889. The first camera, which was offered for sale in 1888, was called â€Kodak’, and it was a remarkably straightforward box camera with a fixed focus lens and single shutter speed. The camera was priced relatively cheaply for the time, which meant it appealed to the average customer. This is where phenomenon of cameras as we know it today, was born. Digital Cameras are now part of almost every household and everyday life for some, and as you browse through the hundreds off different cameras that are on offer, whether it be, expensive top of the market models or inexpensive digital cameras for everyday use, its hard to believe that before 1990, we were all still using the traditional film types. Digital cameras have only been commercially available since 1990 when the world was introduced to the Dycam Model 1, also known as the Logitech footman. Digital cameras were thought of much earlier than that, dating back to the 1970’s, but it wasn’t until 1990, that the general public were able to purchase them. So next time you are in your local camera shop, pondering over whether you should purchase the one with social media upload facilities or automatic face recognition, spare a little thought for the years of photography genius that has made the cameras of today truly remarkable.
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