Get this from a library! Today’s digital-owning photographers can enjoy considerable pleasure when we reach the section describing the early NASA lunar probe cameras and the first digital camera designed by Steve Sasson in 1975: “A Hand Held Electronic Still Camera and its Playback Unit.”Other important digital milestones are included: the Kodak DC40, the Dycam and Epson R-D1.A book not only for collectors but also for those keen to discover the beginnings of photography and the place of digital capture in this saga.The book kicks off with data and large, highly detailed photographs of cameras from the time of the Daguerreotype process, then moves onto rarities such as pistol and waistcoat cameras, stereo and panoramic models.Camera collecting really came of age in the 1970s at a time when galloping technology was rapidly transforming traditional photography and its tools.As electronic and computerised components took on the actual process of taking a photograph, so did the previous tools become obsolescent.Author Gustavson describes and illustrates early timber, brass and leather cameras made by such companies as Kodak, Graflex, Sanderson and Marion.is an experienced writer/photographer currently published in Australian Macworld, Auscam and other magazines in Australia and overseas.It goes almost without saying that photographs from the earliest days (circa 1840) have reached insane values at auction; the cameras that took them are also pulling high values that rival those of vintage cars.
13 reviews Cameras, and what they capture, forever changed our perception of the world, and of ourselves. Length: 360 pages. A book not only for collectors but also for those keen to discover the beginnings of photography and the place of digital capture in this saga. ISBN: 978 1 4027 5656 6. The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson--including insightful essays by Steve Sasson (inventor of the digital camera) and Alexis Gerard (visionary founder of Future Image … Price: Get a price on CAMERA: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to … Publisher: Sterling. [Todd Gustavson] -- Few inventions have had as powerful an influence as the camera, and few modes of expression have enjoyed the enduring artistic, scientific, and popular appeal of photography. This gorgeous cornerstone volume celebrating the camera and the art of the photograph, created in collaboration with the George Eastman House, spans almost 200 years, from the first faint image ever caught to today's state-of-the-art digital equipment.
This gorgeous cornerstone volume celebrating the camera and the art of the photograph, created in collaboration with the George Eastman House, spans almost 200 years, from the first faint image ever caught to today's state-of-the-art digital equipment. Camera : a history of photography from daguerreotype to digital. CAMERA: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital Details. Author: T Gustavson. Distributor: Capricorn Link.