| Description |
256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index. |
| Contents |
1839: the Daguerreotype camera -- 1888: the Kodak -- 1895: Sanderson's universal swing front camera -- 1900: the brownie -- 1900: the mammoth -- 1900: No. 3 folding pocket Kodak -- 1912: vest pocket Kodak -- 1913: the Aptus -- 1915: Thornton Pickard Mark III Hythe camera -- 1922: Ensign Cupid -- 1925: Leica I -- 1928: the Rolleiflex -- 1931: Pilot Reflex -- 1932: Contax I -- 1932: Mini-Fex -- 1933: Univex A -- 1934: Ensign Midget -- 1934: Robot I -- 1934: Retina I -- 1935: Contaflex -- 1936: Kine Exacta -- 1937: Compass -- 1937: the Minox -- 1939: Argus C3 -- 1946: Ensign Ful-Vue -- 1946: Kodak Brownie Target -- 1947: Diax -- 1948: Gamma Duflex -- 1948: Hasselblad 1600F -- 1948: Polaroid Model 95 -- 1950: the hilt camera -- 1951: Voigtländer Prominent -- 1951: Wrayflex -- 1952: View-Master Personal Stereo Camera -- 1953: Mecaflex -- 1953: Periflex I -- 1954: Leica M3 -- 1956: Rittreck IIA -- 1956: Praktina FX -- 1957: Adox 300 -- 1958: the FT-2 -- 1959: Nikon F -- 1959: Olympus Pen -- 1961: Canon 7 -- 1963: Kodak Instamatic-50 -- 1963: Topcon RE Super -- 1972: Polaroid SX-70 -- 1972: Olympus OM-1 -- 1985: Minolta 7000 -- 1991: Canon ION. |
| Summary |
"The Daguerreotype Camera of 1839 is a photographic landmark. It introduced the first practical method for taking a photograph, although what is generally acknowledged as the first photograph was actually taken thirteen years before with a different type of camera by Nicéphore Niépce. The Leica was the first camera to make the 35mm format popular, but it was by no means the first camera to use 35mm film. Likewise, Polaroid wasn't the first to produce an instant picture camera, but was, surprisingly, the first company to introduce an autofocus single lens reflex. The history of the camera is flush with similar anomalies. This lavishly illustrated book with over 460 pictures looks at the cameras that became landmarks and analyzes how and why they influenced future design -- sometimes in a big, important manner, other times in a lesser but still significant way."--Page [2] of book jacket. |
| Subject(S) |
Cameras -- History.
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Cameras -- Pictorial works.
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Title |
Fifty landmark cameras that changed photography |
| ISBN |
9780764350047 (hardcover) |
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