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Cameras
Whether it's a photo of a new baby, a wedding or a day at the beach, cameras help us record and remember life's memories. Ask questions about the camera's history and function here.
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What is the value of a Polaroid Land camera?
Because these cameras are so plentiful, they typically sell at auction for less than $30.00, even in top condition. The most common price is in the $10-20 range, although it's still possible to find a bargain for $5.00 or less.
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The Polaroid 210 Land camera, manufactured from 1967-1969, is probably the most common folding pack camera on the market. Polaroid sold more than 1.5 million of these at a retail price of $49.99
This model uses Series 100/660 pack film that is still available through Polaroid, Fujifilm and the Impossible Project. Although the cost per shot is a little steep compared to digital (about $1.00) each, the Land cameras are an interesting piece of Americana.
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Did steven sasson die in 2007?
Steven Sasson is an electrical engineer and the inventor of the digital camera. He was born in New York on July 4, 1950. As of July 8, 2014, Steven is still alive.
How do they photograph things to make them look bigger?
The only way that we can judge the size of an object in a photograph is to compare it to other objects in the same photograph. Therefore, you can combine two or more photographs, with different enlargements, to create the illusion that some object is larger than it really is. Or you can build small models that look like something bigger than they really are. Or you can use tricks of perspective to make something look closer than it really is.
How does conventional photography differ from a modern photography?
Conventional photography uses film while modern photograhp mainly uses digital.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of light in photography?
I'm going out on a limb, but it seems the only possible disadvantages of light in photography are an improper intensity, amount, quality of diffusion or source position of it, unless you are using photographic materials to capture EMR (electromagnetic radiation) outside of the visible spectrum.
How is the direction of data flow different for data transfers for MP3 players and digital cameras?
MP3 files are downloaded from the PC to the MP3 player, in contrast to a digital camera, which transfers or uploads data to the PC.
How much does a typical 3D Camera cost?
3D Scanner cost depends on the brand and the features of it. The standard price of a 3D scanner is around $450 which can copy physical objects and print in 3D. The expensive ones cost around $1000.
What is the largest memory stick you can use with a Sony DSC-P71 camera?
The largest Memory Stick card you can use in your Sony Cybershot DSC P71 is 256MB
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/compatible-memory/Digital_Cameras/Sony/Sony_Cybershot_DSC_P71
What type of energy does a clock use?
The energy is stored in a battery and transferred to the clock.
I am guessing you are talking about an electronic one?
Please be more specific of your questions next time.
Will digital photography replace film photography?
I believe the answer is yes - once sensors can match or beat film in terms of depth (the range of intensity they can record) and the amount of noise produced. It may occur gradually as die-hard film users retire. But it will happen in my opinion.
The question isn't If! It already has. I mean, you don't see many people- other thna those that are just studying Photography- still using Film SLR's. I've used Film SLR's in the Past, and have completely left it in the dust. From around a year ago, I've been Using Digital SLR's, more convenient, equal image quality, and you aren't limited ( to much ) Who'd rather change rolls of film, when you can shoot 5 Frames per second, and not stop. Digital Photography has already taken over- I can't say film is dead, but suffering from a terminal disease. Manufactures, like Canon, and Nikon, will soon stop Making Film SLR's- So you'll have to shoot Digital.
Nathan
An Historian and Archivist adds
Although most photographers have made the switch to digital there is still a niche that will remain film based for perhaps the next generation. That niche is archival photography, which includes microfilm and preservation of important legal documents. Not that digital archives are not important, but if a legal question comes up the film record will hold up better in a court of law better than a digital because of the ease of which fraud can be commited with digital imaging.
----------------------- It definitely has already occurred. Film offers no real benefit over digital, and I think the last of the old time pros have switched. Some of them left kicking and screaming, but 99% have migrated. There are some people who "just like film." Some digital cameras now have secure one-way hash functions built into them for evidence preservation where if the picture is altered after the fact, the hash won't be correct. It's not perfectly secure, but I'm sure its designed to address the issue above.
What is meant by parallax of a point on a photograph?
Simple parallax is the angle produced by the difference between the axis of a viewing optic versus the axis of the image forming lens. In non slr cameras (range finders) this is an issue below a certain distance and causes a different image to be captured than what is viewed.
The "no parallax point" is the point around which a camera would have to be rotated when constructing panoramic photos using a series of images, so that when the images are stitched together, there is perfect alignment. Where this point is exactly was a subject of debate. Search "no parallax point" to learn more and decide how to find this point in your lens(es).
When was the first still camera invented?
This is a hard one. While half-plate and quarter-plate SLRs are as old as photography, they were heavy and complex and with the single-shot technology of the time offered no real advantages over contemporary view cameras.
The first commercially successful SLRs were probably the 1930s VP Exaktas, which gave 10 shots on a 127 roll.
The first 35mm SLR was the 1936 Kine-Exacta, a VP model (made by Ihagee in Dresden, Germany) scaled down to take 35mm film, although the Soviet, 'Sport,' was introduced at roughly the same time.
Ihagee of Dresden certainly invented the 35mm SLR from which all modern types are descended.
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Why does a camera produce an upside-down image?
Because the pin hole or convex lens of the camera inverts the image being photographed. A ray of light angled downwards will be registered at the base of the film. A ray angled upwards will be registered at the top of the film. Thus inverting the image. It is easier to
What are the two main file formats for saving digital pictures in a digital camera?
JPG and a native (proprietary) RAW format. TIF used to be common, but no more. JPG is a "lossy" compressed format, limited to 8 bits of information per RGB chanel, per pixel. The term "lossy" means that the data isn't completely (1-for-1) restored when it's saved. RAW formats vary, and are highly dependent on the sensor in the camera. Instead of using the firmware in the camera to render the image, you use software in your computer to render the image. The file typically caries 10 bits of information per RGB channel per pixel, or more. This can give you more options for dynamic range (ratio of lightest part of the photo to the darkest), and finer graduation between the colors.
When did the Polaroid camera stop being made?
If conception is invention, then according to the Polaroid website, the Polaroid Land Camera was invented in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1944. Edwin Land was on vacation when his three year old daughter Jennifer asked him why she couldn't see a picture Land took of her right away. Land went for a solitary walk and by the time he returned he had all the central concepts for what became the Land Camera in his head. The folding camera Edwin Land invented produced black-and-white prints in about one minute from roll film inside the camera. Land patented his camera in 1946 (Patent Number 2435720).
It's a little difficult to determine precisely where the first Polaroids, or Land Cameras, were made. The original camera, the Model 95, first sold in 1948 for $89.75 in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the website The Land List (see Related Link below), it is possible (Land List makes no assertion of accuracy) that the earliest Model 95s were produced under contract for Polaroid by Samson United of Rochester, New York with a lens by Wollensak. There is a suggestion from a visitor to the site that some early Model 95's may have also been produced in a Timex plant in Atlanta, Georgia. Later, Polaroid took over production themselves, and Polaroid at the time was headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
What are three storage technologies that digital cameras might use to store images in a camera?
There are RAW( Camera Image FileFormat (CIFF) for CANON CAMERA and NEF(Nikon Electronic Format) for NIKON Cameras , the images are of Big size !!
then we have Jpeg Images (the same format in which the pictures are clicked from the cameras)
Are there any photographs of Pierre Rieu's wedding to Eefje Roberts?
Pierre and Suzan broke up in July 2007. Pierre married Eefje van Hombergh on October 19. 2008. they since have a set of twin girls. Linde and Lieke There are no public pictures of the wedding, but there are some picture of the girls.
Where can you get disposable cameras?
I guess alot of places, it depends what kind of camera you're looking for, how much memory, what the quality is like, the size and shape of it.
You could easily buy one for £10 with 2MB of memory and it can be 2 mega pixels (which I really doubt still exists). But it would be awful to use and keep your memories.
It just depends on what quality you want it to be, cause it will be really hard to find a high quality camera which is actually cheap.
What is a camera stand called?
If you mean a stand used for steadying the camera while taking pictures, then it's called a tripod.
What are advantage of a digital camera over a 35mm camera?
You don't have to pay for film. You don't have to pay for someone to develop your film. You have a nearly endless supply of shots at your disposal. But, the most important factor in my opinion is this: Convenience.
Who was the first man to take a photograph?
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce did, in 1826. Giovanni Battista della Porta in his great work Magiœ Naturalis of 1558 does lay some emphasis on the use of the camera obscura (literally dark room in Latin), a tent or room with a small hole in one wall which optically projects an upside-down image of the scene outside to the opposite wall (all modern photographic cameras are simply small camera obscuras), but della Porta considered the camera obscura primarily an instrument of entertainment, and certainly did not invent chemical photography. That had to wait nearly three more centuries.
Linear perspective had come into widespread use in Italy in the 15th century. The camera obscura aided artists in creating more precise depictions. Sketches made from the projected image in a camera obscura had more exact spatial perspective because a three dimensional scene was accurately projected onto a two dimensional surface. The resulting sketches might, in a considerable stretch, be called "photographic" insofar as they were made from an optical projection, but a true chemical photograph (literally light writing, from the Greek) had to wait until the summer of 1826, when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is credited with producing the world's first chemical photograph using a camera obscura.
Niépce had made photographic negatives on paper with a camera as early as 1814, but was not able to make them permanent. The first permanently fixed photo was that of his 1826 view through his window at Gras.
Does polaroid 600 film go into polaroid instant onestep cameras?
1) Convert the shutter speed to above one second, change the lense and inner zoom technology. Finally deconfribulate the adomisodime to be sycronised with the correct terrolimuzised setting. 2) Buy a new camera
Where and when photography started?
Some of the first photographers were nature photographers, of necessity. Early cameras used very slow shutter speeds, and were not suitable for making photos of moving objects, so the users tended to do a lot of landscapes, where the subjects were stationary and there was plenty of light to make the exposures.
Of of the most recognized pioneers in nature photography is Ansel Adams who lived from Feb. 20, 1902 till April 22nd, 1984. He not only was a nature photographer but an environmentalist who worked to preserve forests.
Is there a way to restore a faded signature on a photograph without decreasing its value?
Restoration to any collectible should be left to the expert that has experience with that type of work, and to this day I have never heard of anyone that restores signatures on a baseball or a photo.
Never retrace a signature. I have been asked this question many times. A baseball or a photo with light or faded signatures will be worth more than one that has been traced. Traced signatures will be worthless.
Once the autograph has faded the best you can do is stop further damage by investing in a U/V protective display case. Try to find a Display case with 50% U/V protection. Keep it away from sun light, and chalk it up to experience. Even reflected sun light will take it's toll over time.
The Ideal conditions for display would be indirect lighting, at a room temperature of 65 - 70 degrees, and 50% humidity. Always check your signatures periodically for signs of fading or deterioration, and avoid excessive handling.
