truls
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Post by truls on Aug 11, 2014 8:24:08 GMT -5
I agree with genazzano, mobile phone cameras are not real cameras as the camera part only is an addon amongst other functions. How to define a camera then? But is has in fact changed the way we take pictures. Since everyone has a camera in the pocket, situations are pictured that before could be difficult to capture. National Geographic acknowledges the camera phone as the most used "camera". So, it could be natural to become a camera phone collector as well?
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Post by daveh on Aug 11, 2014 8:31:31 GMT -5
Unfortunately for Niepce he died in 1833 just as things were hotting up. As well as his bitumen photos he had fixed images onto metal using silver and iodine, some five or so years before Daguerre.
Fox Talbot went in a different direction and his methods were those largely taken up by later generations.
The camera phone? Well, it's just a digital camera that happens to be stuck in a phone. It is the first digital camera that set the trend and moved photography in a different direction.
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Post by hansz on Aug 11, 2014 10:57:41 GMT -5
I was lucky to have a SmartPhone with me... IMG-20140811-WA0001 by hanszeiss, on Flickr Samsung S2 Shot close to the Rietveld-Schroeder house, because of possible damage to the house, no buses/lorries are allowed. With expected results, of course
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Post by truls on Aug 11, 2014 12:10:54 GMT -5
I was lucky to have a SmartPhone with me... on Flickr Samsung S2 Shot close to the Rietveld-Schroeder house, because of possible damage to the house, no buses/lorries are allowed. With expected results, of course Hans, we can see the writing on the wall.. Twenty years from now, everyone carries a large-format quality camera in his pocket.
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Post by genazzano on Aug 11, 2014 13:52:13 GMT -5
Have cameras in cellphones had an effect on sales of DSLRs?
It would seem that it would. Yesterday i left my DSLR at home and took my iPad. I bet I could post some claiming they had been shot with a classic Leica. The fact that all of this bothers me must be a sign of ageing.
David
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 11, 2014 15:27:52 GMT -5
The last camera to have altered photography was the first Leica, it popularised the format for at least 80 years Hot on its heels was the Kine Exakta that got almost everyone using SLRs, and spelt the end of most rangefinder cameras. Sid is right. The Kine Exakta quickly led to other more advanced and versatile Exaktas. Exaktas had a very large and versatile range of accessories that greatly extended the the uses of cameras from snapshots to sports to scientific. From Micro to Macro to Astro. It had an extraordinary selection of shutter speeds from 12 full seconds to 1/1,000 second and self timer. It had a large selection of viewfinders both waist level and eye level and focussing/viewing glasses to use in them. There were some that included through the lens metering. All kinds of lenses were available and one could even use home made lenses. It had one of the easiest and most positive bayonet lens mounts of any camera including today's. Extension tubes and bellows of various kinds were available. Mickey P.S. Although I used the past tense for my description perhaps I should have used present tense. Purchased in 1954 when my first child was born it is still going strong today.
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