Olympus Camera History
Film cameras: Is there a reason to consider Nikons and Canons the best brands?
I mean, while most of the people -even those outside the photo world-, tend to consider that this world is divided into two poles: Nikon and Canon… from time to time I meet brilliant people that are really proud of being devoted to Pentax, Minolta or Olympus (of course the list goes on, but this trio is the most consistent ), and almost all of them tell that while with a much smaller amout of models, the brand of their dreams, has every feature to rival Nikons and Canons, no matter their price is sometimes a fraction of these ’sacred’ names…
Of course I’m 25 so I can´t tell or judge about photo history, but any comment will be really helpful.
Thank you sirs!
Artful has absolutely no idea what he or she’s talking about. I guess there must be a lot of “fools” out there. I know plenty of photographers who prefer using film, especially medium format film.
There are COUNTLESS websites and forums that are devoted specifically to film photography. There are several film forums on Photo.net, and many of the members are professional photographers. There are also literally HUNDREDS of film groups on Flickr. “I Shoot Film” is one of the most active groups on the entire website…it has over 30,000 members and over 800,000 photos in the searchable pool…all from FILM.
Contrary to rumors and popular myths, many companies have also made NEW films. Kodak just started making Ektar 100, and it was so popular in 35mm format that they started making it in 120 size rolls. Demand has already exceeded expectations.
Anyway…back to the original question. I’ll never understand why there is so much debate about two brands of cameras. I have many cameras, including a lot of antique cameras. I think Minolta is awesome. One of my best cameras is a Minolta SRT-101 (a 35mm SLR).
It will blow away a Digital Camera, especially the cheap little point and shoot Digital Cameras that most people use. I don’t even have Photoshop. I don’t need it. If you get the picture right the first time, with your camera, you don’t need to “fix” it on your computer.
Camera phones – from the Intellect to the Tsunami
The term camera phone commonly refers to cellphones with a built in digital camera, that allows it to capture stills and short video clips, store them, and share them with other devices and users through wireless communications technologies.
The first mobile picture phone prototype, entitled the Intellect, was invented in 1993 by Daniel A Henderson, and now resides in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The Intellect was a hand held cell phone with a large monochrome display that could receive and display digital picture and video data sent by a wireless transmitter, and pioneered many of the technologies and protocols that were to find their way into the modern camera phone.
During the nineties, there were several attempts to combine mobile phones with digital camera technology. Camera manufacturers Kodak and Olympus demonstrated several digital camera/mobile phone combinations at trade shows during the nineties, and Apple tried a different tack with a combined mobile videophone and PDA. Impressive as these devices were, they lacked one crucial element of the modern day cameraphone – they could not connect to the internet, and were therefore unable to quickly and easily share images with other users, without physical connection to a computer.
The first camera phone to be able to do this, the Sharp J-SH04, was released commercially in Japan in 2001, with a US release the following year.
The ability to take pictures and share them quickly and easily with others was one of the main selling points of the new 3G phone services, so naturally phone manufacturers were keen to include cameras with their new phones wherever possible in order to start making money from their expensive 3G licenses. By 2006, over half of all mobile phones had in built cameras, which was to prove catastrophic for the digital camera industry, forcing two of the big four manufacturers, Minolta and Konica, out of business.
At the end of 2008, there were over 1.9 billion cameraphones in circulation worldwide, and that figure looks set to rise even higher over the coming years.
Footage shot by citizen journalists on cameraphones has even started to crop up on major television news bulletins. The first major international breaking news story to use cameraphone footage in this way was the 2005 Boxing Day Tsunami.
With the advent of video sharing platforms such as Youtube, and its rapid acceptance as a format for breaking news footage, cameraphone footage has become an increasing part of the visual fabric of our culture.
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