History Of Camera Film: The Ermanox Camera was soon replaced by the mo Flexible 35mm film camera, which had the advantage th it was smaller and enabled the photographer to tal thirty-six negatives in rapid succession on a single loai ing of inexpensive standard motion-picture film. Ti first Camera of this type to become popular with amateu and professionals alike was the Leica, designed just b fore World War I by Oskar Barnack, a mechanic in tl experimental workshop of the optical firm of E.
The use of the press Camera with cut film is important in news coverage because you often send in negatives, sometimes undeveloped, for fast processing in the newspaper's own darkroom. Most such darkrooms are equipped to handle only cut film with any efficiency. In the case of features, you can count on making your own prints in your own darkroom, and you can produce them in any way you see fit with the Camera you like best. This might influence you to use a twin-lens reflex camera, the favorite tool of the magazine photographers, rather than a press camera. An Automatic Rolleiflex, equipped with flash, is just about the ideal all-around picture taking device for journalistic purposes.
i
The greatest improvement in the history of Camera film of cola photography came with the perfection of film coatee with three layers of emulsion that could be used in an] camera, and required merely a single exposure for ead picture. Available in 1935 for 16mm motion pictuif cameras and in 1937 for 35mm still cameras, this Kotk chrome film was the invention of Leopold Mannes am Leopold Godowsky, working in collaboration with re search scientists at the Eastman Kodak Company. Th< process is based on the 1912 invention of dye-couplinj development by Rudolf Fischer of Berlin.
|
|
Photography
