Topics: Equipment and Services : Cameras
Cameras are the defining tools of photography, the science which the art could not exist without. Descended from the ancient camera obscura, all cameras share three basic traits: an aperture to focus light, an imaging media (usually film) to record the focused image, and a body to keep unfocused light away from the media.
35mm
The most common type of camera today, 35mm cameras were invented in 1914 by Oskar Barnack, and made commercially available by Leica in 1925.
Argus,
Canon,
Contax,
Konica,
Leica,
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Advanced Photo System
The Advanced Photo System (APS) is a 24mm film format developed in the 1990s by a group of five camera manufacturers responding to consumers' difficulties with conventional 35mm cameras.
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Collecting
For many photography enthusiasts, camera collecting is as much a part of their hobby as the taking of photographs.
Chats and Forums,
Organizations,
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Digital
Canon EOS-300D,
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Instant
Instant cameras were invented in 1947 by Edmund Land, founder of Polaroid. Such cameras use self-developing films that chemically convert to finished photographs without the intermediate step of developing a negative.
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Large Format
Large format cameras are manual-focus view cameras that use sheet film to produce images significantly larger than other formats.
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Medium Format
One of the oldest formats still in widespread use, medium format cameras and film were introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1898.
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Subminiature
Subminiature cameras are usually defined as any still camera that exclusively uses a single film format smaller than 16.7mm x 30.2mm, which is the size of the Advanced Photo System's (APS) IX240 film.
Minolta 16,
Minox,
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