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Still Cameras Cameras date back to ancient civilizations. But up until the 17th century they were just ideas and viewing lenses. The first photograph was taken in 1814 and much has changed since then.

Cameras first started as very rare devices, things few people had. This changed with changes in technology such as: First from fading images that needed 8 hours of light exposure (first picture), to images that needed only 30 minutes of light exposure that never faded. Eventually the Collodion process was made requiring pictures to have 2-3 seconds of light exposure. The Collodion process made for taking pictures way easy, greatly increasing the number of people who would spring for a camera. With even greater advances in film technology, like the ability to process the image in the camera and roll film instead of frames the real first mass marketed camera was but into society, the Brownie. The Brownie was a box camera that came in many shapes and sizes. Costing 1$ at the time it costs a staggering 1,000$ (approx.). With this low price everyone was buying the newest and latest trend, the rise of cameras had begun. After the Brownie, a relative innovative plateau, until 1914 when the 35mm camera was invented, that of course being for more professional photographers the Brownie still ruled. With the Brownie came the term "snap shot." This is because the Brownie was used to capture funny or memorable moments in life, sometimes considered sloppy by pros, called a disgrace to art. But still these slanderous words had no effect on the people of America. In 1935 the modern flash bulb was made so having not enough lighting was a thing of the past. This also made taking pictures in the blink of an eye that much more easy.

In 1941 Kodacolor film was for sale in certain cameras. This color film once again changed everything. A new level had been reached, to be able to take pictures in colors was unprecedented, and once this came popularity went through the roof. The popularity is proven by the fact that it was only discontinued in 2010. For seventy years Kodacolor film was very prevalent.

At the same time other companies were working with color film. For example the Polaroid camera. The Polaroid allowed the photographer to have a picture almost instantaneously. A one step develop and print procces, pattented in 1948, an extreemly popular camera this sold many units wand is still making inprovementes to the technology. Polaroid cameras are still in use today although they no longer print pictures immediatly.

With the use of film that still needs to be developed fading into the realm of disuse comes the shining light of the digital camera. The first digital camera was patented in 1972, and from that time unti now they have still been advancing technology. For example, when these first came out they were about as big regular film cameras of the time, but as the need for acctual disks went away the cameras got smaller, and eventualy, in 1995 an LCD screen became almost standard in digital cameras.This camera was very popular, not needing any kind of film, but rather storing the pictures you've taken on an SD card, than uploading those pictures on to a computer than useing a picture paper printer to print your pictures. You could also delete things if you didn't want them, and just take another picture in an instant. Another thing that was very new was zoom you coul zoom in on the field of vision that your camera had.

People thought that this camera was way better than teh old ones and companies started marketing camains to appeal to a wider populous, and obviouly the marketing worked because almost everyone you see today at least has a small unproffesional camera to take pictures of just everyday things with. A picture used to be worth a thousand words, but now there are so many they are only worth 100. Cameras are so integrated into society that without it the human language would be so obsolete. Words and pictures are almost the same thing, if a bunch of words is just a bunch of words with nothing pretty to look at than nobody will listen to what you have to say no matter how riveting what you have to say might be. Basicly if we didn't use cameras than people just wouldn't understand anything in life. So I guess that pictures are acctualy worth 1,000,000,000 words.

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