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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 does a copyright cost?

Nothing.

All creative works in the US are automatically copyrighted when first physically made.

There are fees to REGISTER a copyright, but registration is needed only if you anticipate a likelihood of commercial use.

The "mail it to yourself" idea suggested by a couple of other posters is sometimes called a "poor mans copyright", and has no legal value whatsoever in the US.

If a copyright is infringed, and the copyright is not registered, the only legal recourse is to have a court order the infringement stopped - no damages can be sought or awarded. If the copyright IS registered, then there can be damages. There's no 'in-between' area for stuff that's been mailed back to yourself.

Copyright law - including 'poor mans copyright' - is addressed by the US copyright office in the link below.

Who and when was the first camera invented?

The camera came in increments ... light (lens): 4th - 5th Centuries B.C. Chinese and Greek philosphers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. 1664 - 1666 Isaac Newton discovered that white light is composed of different colors. 1727 - Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. 1794 - First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker. 1814 - Joseph Nicephore Niepce achieves first photographic imagine with camera obscura. However, the image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded. 1837 - Daguerr'es first dauerroetype, the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under 30 minutes of light exposure. 1840 First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. 1841 - William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. 1843 - First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. 1851 - Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only 2 - 3 seconds of light exposure. 1859 - Panoramic amera patented - the Sutton 1861 - Oliver Wendell Holmes invents steroscope viewer. 1865 - Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright. 1871 - Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. 1880 - Eastman Dry Plate Company founded. 1884 - Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. 1888 - Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. 1898 - Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. 1900 - First mass-marketed camera - the Browning. 1913/1914 - First 35 mm still camera developed. MARCY'S INFO: Did you also know that to this day filmmakers can't resolve the problem of car or wagon wheels going backwards in a movie? Next time you watch a movie, take a close look at the car's wheels. the camera was made in the 1600s

What was the impact of the Polaroid Camera on history?

From what I have learned it had a major impact on society of that time. If you had a photo taken of yourself, family, etc. it was a sign of wealth. This now enabled newspapers to use photography. An incredibly large impact was how photography was an entire new art form to emerge. the camera makes me happy

What cable do you use to hook up a video camera to a laptop to edit video?

Most newer cameras come with USB ports and cords to match. You might ask someone who is familiar with computer cords if your camera has a USB port, and what size plug it takes. USB ports on computers are all the same size. Also, take a look in your camera manual, or you could take it to a shop that sells equipment and find out there.

What is Movement within the picture plane in photography?

According to an online dictionary it means the act of assuming of a certain position. Photography is a very creative and popular 'art', therefore there is a lot to know about it - you can check for several books about photography on the internet is you wish.

How bright are red light cameras?

Just as a quick explanation - As a vehicle approaches an intersection the vehicle is detected with a series of in-ground loop detectors. Based on time distance calculations the speed of the vehicle is determined. The computer takes inti account the speed of a vehicle and the likelihood that the vehicle will violate the red light based on the traffic signal phasing. If the computer determines that a violation is likely then the cameras will be activated.

Another View: -OR- it operates as simply as the camera being turned on whenever the red light is lit. Then, it takes a picture of any vehicle crossing the intersection AFTER the red light has actually illumminated.

Where does the word photography come from?

Photography is a method for producing lasting images by means of a chemical reaction that occurs when light hits a specially prepared surface. It was invented during the first decades of the 19th century as a direct consequence of advances in chemistry and optics (the science of the behavior of light). The word Photography comes from two Greek words that mean "writing with light".

The best cameras used for photography?

There is no single "best" camera. First, please see the answers to the questions, "Which is the best professional camera," and, "Do all cameras produce the same image quality?" Those related questions are both referenced below so you can just click on them. They will answer a lot of questions without repeating them here. If you're in the market for a camera, proceed with caution as cost does not necessarily equal quality.

Everyone thinks they want the "best" camera, but best for you and best for me are two different things. If you initially buy "too much" camera and can't work it, it's not the best - for you. Any camera that works at all is as capable of taking wonderful pictures as awful ones (and beauty is always in the eye of the beholder). Some of the great names such as Nikon, Canon and Pentax can be blown away by some of the lesser known (see Consumer Reports), but everything is relative. Do lots of homework. Lens quality is always huge, but if you're thinking digital be careful about falling for the Megapixel Myth. More can be less. As you cram more megapixels into the same size sensor, you may degrade sharpness. I think 10 mpx in a small point-and-shoot is about the maximum, and even that may not be as sharp as, say, a 6 mpx (but you can get bigger enlargements from a 10 mp).

What is the salary of a director of photography in first year?

I earn +300k per year in Michigan. If you're out in Hollywood or Chicago; probably closer to +500k-600k
There is probably a union scale for the DP; depending on the project's budget, producer, and so forth.

What is the best way to photograph underwater through a glass?

The answer, of course, depends on which camera you are using, what objects you'll photograph, and the desired style of your photo.

Style:

Let's start with style of photo first. If you want a wider angle, curved view, fisheye look, you'll want a fisheye lens. If not, you'll select a rectilinear lens. Some fisheye lenses can capture 180 degree field of view and distort the image. If you're taking a picture of a single shark, for example, a fisheye lens may not produce the most pleasing image.

Objects:

If shooting large aquatic animals, you'll typically want a rectilinear zoom lens. Because it's difficult to obtain quality photographs from a distance underwater, the focal length will still be fairly short, usually less than 24mm. For smaller objects, you'll typically want shorter focal lengths.

Camera:

Canon and Nikon have excellent lens choices, but third party lens manufacturers also make great lenses, but are typically less expense. Here's a good lens list for Nikon and Canon:

For Nikon:

Fisheye:

Nikon 10.5mm (cropped sensor)

Tokina 10-17mm (cropped sensor)

Rectilinear:

Nikon 10-24mm (cropped sensor)

Nikon 12-24mm (cropped sensor)

Sigma 8-16mm (cropped sensor)

Tokina 12-24mm (cropped sensor)

For Canon:

Fisheye:

Canon 15mm

Sigma 15mm

Tokina 10-17mm (cropped sensor)

Rectilinear:

Canon 10-22mm (cropped sensor)

Sigma 10-20mm

Sigma 8-16mm (cropped sensor)

Tokina 12-24mm (cropped sensor)

How do you download photos from camera to my PC?

This really depends on what kind of camera that you have. Some you need a USB cord that plugs into your USB drive, and it will assist you when you need to upload them. These instructions, again, depend on your camera and PC model. If you have a camera that uses a data chip, it would plug into the K drive of your computer, which is usually below the USB drive (it is on mine.) It would look like a thin, long plug that is on the side of your computer that would look like the side that you plug the chip into. Again, this depends on your PC, camera, and your method of uploading the pictures.

How do you set shutter speed?

Use shutter priority mode (S mode on dial) or manual mode (M on dial) and then select the speed you want by using the dials.

Camera man salary?

  • You would have to shop around for 'Wedding Photographers' and each one charges differently depending on how popular they are. You should ask to see their portfolio (other wedding pictures) to see if you like the way the photographer takes the pictures. Depending on how many pictures you want you could pay anywhere from $600 up (isn't cheap.) The wedding photographer will take private pictures and also pictures at the church and it is up to you if you want them at the reception where more pictures will be take of the bride, groom and wedding party along with both sets of parents. If you are on a limited budget you could have a very few pictures taken at a wedding photographers studio which would include ... mother and daughter; bride with Maid of Honor and Bridesmaids and then ask others in the family to bring their cameras. If you know someone that is good at pictures then ask them to take the other pictures.

What is the best way to photograph the moon with a digital camera?

You will need a tripod as long exposure is involved with photographing the moon. You will also need a fairly long lens - the moon, particularly on the horizon looks larger than it actually is, the camera lens is not fooled by this and the part of the image taken up by the moon will be quite small even with a longish lens (around 200mm say). Assuming you've armed yourself with a tripod and a telephoto lens, then the other problem is exposure. At night, the moon is, effectively a bright blob in a large area of black. The camera exposure system assumes you are photographing an average gray scene (by average, I mean 18% gray). The result is that if you use the camera exposure system set to automatic, the moon will be very over exposed - perhaps by 3 or 4 stops. There are a number of ways around this: # With an ISO setting of 100, the correct exposure is around 1/90 at F16. Set your camera to manual exposure and use that setting. If the ISO doesn't go down that low then you will need to adjust the aperture or exposure time appropriately. # Use a spot exposure facility (if your camera has that) and expose on just the moon. # Use exposure compensation and take the exposure down by 3 stops. Between shots, look at the preview screen on the back of the camera and see what the image looks like - making adjustments as appropriate. Although it doesn't look like it, the moon is moving quite quickly across the sky and you'll need to adjust the tripod regularly to keep the image in the viewfinder.

How was the first motion picture made?

The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera.

The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention. The Cinematographe made motion pictures very popular, and it could be better be said that Lumiere's invention began the motion picture era. In 1895, Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person.

The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S..

What angle in photography is shot from the ground?

There is no single answer to this question. It depends on the shot being taken, the lens being used and the artistic or functional purpose of the picture. In general, take the picture from two angles if you have time. Look for an interesting angle, squat down and take the picture at a view other than your eye level. I love to sit down on the floor and take pictures of children at their eye level or stand on a chair in a crowded room, just to get 18 inches difference in my angle, it shows how full the room is. Examples: Portraits are usually taken where the lens is at eye-level for a visually comfortable picture. If the purpose was the make a person look smaller or perhaps childlike the camera might be raised to look slightly down on the subject. In the same way, lowering a camera will make subjects loom large in the frame and create an effect of power or dominance (this may not register consciously) Wide-angle nature vista photos are often taken with the camera lens 8-12 inches off the ground, with an interesting foreground element. This gives the picture great depth, with a huge sky and a tiny flower in the same exposure. When photographing buildings I like to move to one corner of the building and take a picture of the front of the building, this gives the picture depth and creates interesting graphic vectors in the frame. If you need a shot of the front of a building getting the camera lens about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way from the ground to the height of the top of the building will make it look more inviting. Staying close and shooting up will make it loom large in the frame, like with portraits. In situations where this is not possible specially designed lenses can compensate for the effect, or digital software can be used after the picture is taken.

How much mega pixel camera?

A megapixel is one million pixels. A pixel is a picture element. Like graphics displayed on a television or computer monitor, digital photos are made from millions of tiny colored dots, or pixels. The more pixels used to produce a photo, the less "grainy" it will appear and the better any enlargements made from it will be.

A 6-megapixel camera can produce standard 4 x 6 photos at a remarkable 500 pixels per inch and 8 x 10 photos at 273 ppi.

A megapixel (MP) is 1 million pixels, and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but also to express the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays.

What is a good cheap camera?

Canon ZR 930 is what I have its a fantastic camera great quality and you could probably find it somewhere for under 200.

Can airport x-ray machines damage camera film?

It depends on which kind. The small ones that you put your cary-ons through to get to the gate usually won't, but the big ones that you put your checked bags through probably will destroy your film. If you are concerned about your camera and film, ask for a manual search of the affected bags.

How much does it cost for setup of survailance camera?

In the UK they cost a minium of £1500 each in America they cost with a minium of $1250. Depends what you mean by 'cctv camera'. A simple domestic observation camera in the UK can be bought over the counter in DIY shops from about £25, but that doesn't include recording facilities.

How do you upload videos from a digital camera to your mac to facebook?

you copy this link in the address bar, go to facebook, paste the link

I know loads of people with this question you have to go on the application in the search bar type in video, it should appear and then click on it and add the application then go onto profile and press the + button the video should be on there

In 1888 a bank clerk from Rochester named George Eastman introduced the first hand-held roll-film camera What company did he found?

=Rollfilm or roll film is any type of spool-wound photographic film protected from white light exposure by a paper backing, as opposed to film which is protected from exposure and wound forward in a cartridge. Confusingly, roll film was originally often referred to as "cartridge" film because of its resemblance to a shotgun cartridge. The opaque backing paper allows roll film to be loaded in daylight. It is typically printed with frame number markings which can be viewed through a small red window at the rear of the camera. A spool of roll film is usually loaded on one side of the camera and pulled across to an identical take up spool on the other side of the shutter as exposures are made. When the roll is fully exposed, the take up spool is removed for processing and the empty spool on which the film was originally wound is moved to the other side, becoming the take up spool for the next roll of film.==Rollfilm was invented by George Eastman and first used in his Kodak box camera of 1888. Roll film remained the format of choice for inexpensive snapshot cameras through the end of the 1950s, the most common sizes being 127 and 828 for small format cameras and 120 and 116 for medium format cameras. The use of roll film in snapshot cameras was largely superseded by 135 and 126 cartridges, but 120 and 220 film is still commonly used in medium format cameras.=

How did the public react to the invention of photography?

The first digital camera to be widely marketed to consumers was the Apple QuickTake 100. It held 8 images at resolution 640 x 480, was fixed-focus, connected only to a Mac (and it didn't have media cards--you had to connect the camera to a computer to get the pictures off), and cost $750. The reaction was very simple: "You want $750 for THAT? No freakin' way!"

On the professional side, we had Better Light backs for view cameras. They cost $35,000 and had to be tethered to a computer in use. They were also "scanning" backs. Imagine taking a small flatbed scanner, that has to make three scans--one each for red, green and blue parts of the image--and putting it on your bellows camera in place of a film holder. Better Light is still in business and still makes these backs, but they're not as expensive now and the new ones scan all three channels in one pass.

How do cameras work?

Cameras are of two types

Digital:

These cameras have photo sensitive transistors which actually help to generate different voltages for different colors of light and they get converted to different values through a ADC and are processed to generate a picture.

Older cameras:

They contain silver compound (mostly Agcl) coated reel (photo reel which we buy) which is exposed to atmosphere for a split second when the shutter opens and thus by different intensities a different pattern is formed producing a photo. That is the reason negative cleaning is done is dark rooms.
There are several type of camera but a still digital camera captures an image and stores it as a data file. A still film camera captures light images on a light sensitive film which can then be developed into photographs.